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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Fons Van den heuvel on June 03, 2015, 01:38:39 PM

Title: found in Portugal
Post by: Fons Van den heuvel on June 03, 2015, 01:38:39 PM: 01: end of March, wooded dunes Ria Formosa, Algarve, Portugal
02: Early April; hard (dune-)hill at Logao Sto André, Alentejo coast Portugal
03: : end of March, inland walk (+/-200m. altitude); Fonte de Benémola, Algarve, Portugal
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: reifuan on June 03, 2015, 02:20:27 PM: The first two look like Freesia alba.. The others, no idea
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: Maggi Young on June 03, 2015, 02:32:21 PM: Hello Fons, welcome to the Forum. :)

I agree that the white plant looks very much like a Freesia - but why would a freesia be growing in Portugal? It looks to be in a wild habitat - a garden escape, naturalised? ???

The yellow daisy I don't know but the last buds seems to be of a Cistus.
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: Oron Peri on June 03, 2015, 02:41:27 PM: Freesia leichtlinii - Naturalizing in many locfations in the Mediterranean.
Arctotheca calendula, from SA is invasive in coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
Cistus salvifolius
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: Maggi Young on June 03, 2015, 02:52:48 PM: :D Oron, I knew you would be the man with a great answer. Fascinating to see what plants are naturalising in other countries. I expect some must be a threat to native plants, too, as some alien plants can be in any country.
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: Maggi Young on June 03, 2015, 02:58:45 PM: Quote from: reifuan on June 03, 2015, 02:20:27 PM
The first two look like Freesia alba.. The others, no idea

I learn from the Pacific Bulb Society Wiki that " In the monograph, Botany and Horticulture of the Genus Freesia (Iridaceae) published by John C. Manning & Peter Goldblatt in Strelitzia (2010), the species Freesia alba has been included in this species ( F. leichtlinii) as a subspecies. " http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Freesia (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Freesia)
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 04, 2015, 01:02:00 AM: Quote from: Oron Peri on June 03, 2015, 02:41:27 PM
Arctotheca calendula, from SA is invasive in coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
Known here as "Cape Weed" and an absolute pest because even mowing won't get rid of it! Fortunately in our climate it is annual but right now a gazillion seedlings are germinating :o
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: found in Portugal
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 06, 2015, 02:34:11 AM: It's a pleasant weed on our local football pitch surrounds - well, the mowed grassy areas.