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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Darren on June 19, 2017, 10:54:18 AM

Title: Lychnis?
Post by: Darren on June 19, 2017, 10:54:18 AM
Anyone with Gerd Stopp's list from two or three years ago might be able to give me a name for this . One of our group members bought a random selection from Gerd to sell on at our meetings. The label has faded but I recall looking it up and I think it is a Chinese species? Can anyone give me the name please? It is doing well between two tufa blocks on our new raised bed.


Title: Re: Lychnis?
Post by: gerrit on June 19, 2017, 04:29:41 PM
It is a Silene, perhaps Silene delavayi.
Title: Re: Lychnis?
Post by: Gabriela on June 20, 2017, 06:48:01 PM
Darren,
if you can take a picture from the side would be useful. It looks a bit like S. nigrescens, which is Chinese, but also like S. uralensis ssp. apetala - from Northern Europe.

- I meant I picture to better show the calyx shape.
Title: Re: Lychnis?
Post by: Darren on June 21, 2017, 08:30:52 AM
Thank you both for your suggestions.   :) I will take another picture this evening.
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