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Title: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on April 16, 2018, 10:57:18 AM

As the pulsatilla  season  begins (  as we have seen in the UK from the appearance of some fine forms on the show benches, for instance, or posts like this....
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16256.msg391446#msg391446 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16256.msg391446#msg391446) ) a question  comes  from across the Atlantic about the  ID of this plant .....

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Looks to me like a semi-double P. halleri slavica - what do others think?

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: ArdfearnAli on April 18, 2018, 02:55:59 PM

Hi Maggi,
            I find pulsatilla very confusing and difficult to identify. I have a growing collection of various colours and forms which are probably mostly hybrids. The ones that I thought of when I saw the photo first was perhaps a semi double P. campanella? or maybe a Pulsatilla x papageno hybrid?

Alasdair

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on April 18, 2018, 03:55:07 PM

Aha!  Semi double P. campanella is what Ian said!

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 02:47:47 PM

Today we visited a site a Swedish friend recommended, where Pulsatilla vulgaris grows on a slope down to the Baltic Sea.

(https://up.picr.de/32516833tl.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 02:52:44 PM

Two other views.

(https://up.picr.de/32516835ic.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 02:54:01 PM

(https://up.picr.de/32516837zy.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 02:55:22 PM

There was some range of colour, too.

(https://up.picr.de/32516836vq.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 02:58:31 PM

I´ve never seen them coloured like this - the outer half of the flower was blue. I thought this might be due to some kind of disturbance, but there were similar plants on an inland site, too.

(https://up.picr.de/32516838fj.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 03:00:22 PM

A light blue variant of the same pattern - unfortunately, the wind wasn´t helpful.

(https://up.picr.de/32516839uc.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 05:00:56 PM

Variation of form, as well.

(https://up.picr.de/32516841pq.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: Mariette on April 27, 2018, 05:05:00 PM

Obviously, those plants growing below the level the water occasionally reached don´t suffer.

(https://up.picr.de/32516840cx.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulsatilla 2018
Post by: ashley on April 27, 2018, 08:25:52 PM

How beautiful.  Thank you for showing these Mariette.