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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ChrisB on October 14, 2014, 06:31:27 AM

Title: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: ChrisB on October 14, 2014, 06:31:27 AM: Friend has this mystery plant and wonders if anyone can tell her what it is.
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 14, 2014, 06:52:35 AM: Philesia magellanica,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: ChrisB on October 14, 2014, 08:01:28 AM: Wow thanks Fermi, I'll let her know! I racked my brain but couldn't think of anything, nor could anyone else at our Northumberland Group for that matter. Seems so strange to have flowers like that on what looks like a conifer... Thanks again. Christine
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on October 14, 2014, 09:41:46 AM: Not only is it Philesia magellanica, Christine, it's one with a very nice large flower They do have good-sized flowers but that appears to be a larger than average bloom, with a good wide flare. 8)
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: ChrisB on October 14, 2014, 09:52:36 AM: I'd never come across it before. It's growing outdoors in a walled garden at Cockburnspath... So it's quite hardy. I think Judy got it from our members stall one year. Quite an unusual plant that's for sure...
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on October 14, 2014, 10:28:07 AM: I always think of it as a mini- version of a Lapageria! Really super plant.
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Melvyn Jope on October 14, 2014, 01:57:50 PM: Maggi,I guess that's what someone else was thinking when they produced xPhilageria veitchii
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on October 14, 2014, 02:00:56 PM: Quote from: Melvyn Jope on October 14, 2014, 01:57:50 PM
Maggi,I guess that's what someone else was thinking when they produced xPhilageria veitchii

Indeed, Melvyn- I've never seen it though
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Melvyn Jope on October 14, 2014, 02:16:46 PM: No neither have I but would like to be able to grow it though!
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: Otto Fauser on October 14, 2014, 11:31:17 PM: Chris , I think your plant is the paler coloured variety rosea . In my garden the plant covers several square meters and I have to constrain the suckers . I used to grow the bigeneric hybrid x Philageria veitchii , imported from Hilliers Nursery many years ago when they stocked many more unusual plants . It never flowered ,so eventually it got the chop .
Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed
Post by: ChrisB on October 15, 2014, 07:41:13 AM: Thanks Otto, I bet your clump is a sight to behold! I will let Judy know, I will be seeing her next week all being well.