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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Tristan_He on July 30, 2015, 11:59:53 AM
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Hi there, some friends of mine went hiking in Nepal last year and brought back a couple of seed pods. They were collected above the treeline (about 3500m I think), but I don't have an exact locality.
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The one on the left looks rather like a Buddleia, which makes me wonder if my butterfly bush has seeded into my pots! And yet... it looks a bit different to B. davidii. The right hand one looks worryingly like Prunella vulgaris, which apparently also grows in the Himalayas.
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Obviously this is an Apiaceae / umbellifer / cow parsley thing. Any ideas? I'm hoping for a nice Pleurospermum.
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Haven't the foggiest! Wondered about Androsace or Codonopsis but it doesn't really look right for either. I've never come across anything before that produces both a rosette and such a leafy stem.
Regards, Tristan
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I'm thinking Schrophulariaceae for the first two, maybe one of the small Veronica for the first one? Second might be a Cyananthus?
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Thanks very much Bjørnar. I hadn't thought of Cyananthus as I've never grown these, and it doesn't seem to be one of the usually cultivated ones. We'll see! :) I'll post photos if and when any of these flower.
Tristan