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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on June 12, 2014, 02:05:29 PM

Title: unknown Campanula
Post by: shelagh on June 12, 2014, 02:05:29 PM: Help needed to identify this lovely little campula. It is 6-8 inches high, although it's habit is more down than up. The colour is wonderfully deep like C. pulla but it has a branched stem. Flowers face down rather than up, foliage is small and neat.
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: ChrisB on June 12, 2014, 02:31:46 PM: No idea Shelagh, but it is very nice. Looks like a nomad?
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: shelagh on June 12, 2014, 02:35:12 PM: I've no idea where we got it from Chris. It looks as if it should be tumbling down a cliff face somewhere.
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: reifuan on June 14, 2014, 10:35:33 AM: I think it's Campanula raddeana
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2014, 11:19:36 AM: See this blog of Kata's to see her plant of C. raddeana - she is growing hers with support for the trailling stems ; she is , after all, growing it on a balcony and would like to see the flowers rather than have them dangling over the edge :)

http://gardenonbalcony.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/campanula-raddeana.html (http://gardenonbalcony.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/campanula-raddeana.html)
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: shelagh on June 14, 2014, 12:34:52 PM: Thanks for the link Maggi but that is much larger than ours. I'm hoping to put it in tomorrow in 6 cut flowers but for now it will have to remain anonymous.
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2014, 12:54:37 PM: I wonder if Kata's isn't just a big form, or perhaps another species? Other pictures I've found online show plants with foliage more like yours...... trying to find a full description..... I'll be back ;)
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2014, 01:17:54 PM: Well, unless someone here has access to the full text of this : Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 10:395. 1866 , I cannot find a full description of the plant. :(

Here is Todd Boland's pic of C. raddeana : https://www.nargs.org/plant/campanula-raddeana (https://www.nargs.org/plant/campanula-raddeana)
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: Lori S. on June 14, 2014, 03:23:02 PM: In Graham Nicholls' Dwarf Campanulas, he says C. raddeana has "tufts of stiff, glossy, cordate, serrate leaves to 5 cm wide on long, hairless petioles"; stems are multibranched, 20-30 cm tall; stem leaves on short, winged, toothed petioles. Flowers: pendant, lavender-blue, to 2cm long and 3cm wide, racemes of up to 15; corolla is lobed to about 1/3 its length, reflexed lobes. Style as long or longer than the corolla. Orange-toned pollen.
Title: Re: unknown Campanula
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2014, 03:24:39 PM: Quote from: Lori S. on June 14, 2014, 03:23:02 PM
In Graham Nicholls' Dwarf Campanulas, he says C. raddeana has "tufts of stiff, glossy, cordate, serrate leaves to 5 cm wide on long, hairless petioles"; stems are multibranched, 20-30 cm tall; stem leaves on short, winged, toothed petioles. Flowers: pendant, lavender-blue, to 2cm long and 3cm wide, racemes of up to 15; corolla is lobed to about 1/3 its length, reflexed lobes. Style as long or longer than the corolla. Orange-toned pollen.

Just what I was looking for Lori - just didn't have the book!