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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: eww on April 04, 2017, 10:47:15 PM
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Welcome eww!
I wonder of this unusually coloured plant is a form of either Delphinium hesperium subsp. pallescens or D. tricorne?
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Height and leaf form would both be useful
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As David mentioned, without leaf and a bit more details of flower would be just anyones guess about the species (if not hybrid).
It is not tricorne, but it could also match flower-wise the NA Delphinium leucophaeum.
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Many thanks for suggestions to date
Attached, Delphinium? in earlier life
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While Delphinium leucophaeum has similar flower coloration, its inflorescences are very tall and narrow, not so wide and congested as in the photo. It also flowers fairly late, mid to late June in its natural habitat.
Ed
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Never saw D. leucophaeum in the wild and the reason I know about it is that I got some seeds one year (I should have a seedlings somewhere...).
Regarding the flowers/time, many times when cultivated in the garden species become a bit more floriferous, and eww is from NZ as I see.
Anyway, I am not saying the plant shown is leucophaeum, especially that they hybridize easy. But is nice to talk about it being such a beautiful and distinct species, plus endangered in the wild habitat.
Link from the Oregon Flora Image Project
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/del_leu.htm (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/del_leu.htm)
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I note that one of the photos shown in the link Gabriela gives does have a much fuller spire of flowers than many of the others. Perhaps the species can be variable enough to produce flower spikes as shown in eww's photo?
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/images2/del_leu_4666b.jpg (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/images2/del_leu_4666b.jpg)