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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Menai on August 04, 2016, 07:21:46 PM

Title: Calceolaria ID please
Post by: Menai on August 04, 2016, 07:21:46 PM

Please will someone ID this calceolaria. Is it C. integrifolia? Rather a pathetic flower but it is a small plant which had got squashed on the bench
Thank you

Erle
Anglesey

Title: Re: Calceolaria ID please
Post by: Gabriela on August 05, 2016, 02:38:12 AM

I'm no Calceolaria specialist but I think this is the common C. biflora. Friends collected seeds for me last year in a trip to Patagonia and took pictures so I can positively ID the species.

Title: Re: Calceolaria ID please
Post by: Menai on August 05, 2016, 05:38:18 PM

Thank you Gabriela. Makes sense as it turned up in one of our plant sales and on the whole we don't get given rarities!

Erle

Title: Re: Calceolaria ID please
Post by: Gabriela on August 05, 2016, 07:12:06 PM

For us this one is enough of a rarity to have it growing in the garden ;) I have three plants but they are done flowering; most probably will behave like an annual, luckily so easy to grow from seeds.