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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on August 27, 2019, 10:38:34 AM

Title: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: shelagh on August 27, 2019, 10:38:34 AM

We attended our local Ramsbottom Horticultural Show yesterday and this wonderful Campanula caught my eye. It is named as C. persicifolia Milky Way. What fascinated me was it is like a hose in hose not a regular double.

In Peter  Lewis and Margaret Lynch's 'Campanulas a Gardeners Guide they list several double forms many of which they think are out of cultivation and go back many years, but this is not on their list.

The flower form is more like C. betulifolia.

Does anyone know it, have it and could spare a bit?

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: Palustris on August 27, 2019, 03:25:53 PM

Listed  as  C.punctata Milky Way and C. persicifolia Milky Way by various suppliers from T&M to Hillview and Hayloft.

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: shelagh on August 27, 2019, 07:17:56 PM

Thanks Eric. So which is it punctata or persicicfolia?

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 27, 2019, 07:57:28 PM

RHS seems  only to refer to Campanula punctata  Milky  Way, albeit as a  "tentatively  accepted  name"  -  so I'd  guess that.

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: shelagh on August 27, 2019, 09:39:36 PM

Thompson and Morgan want £14 for it so I think I'll pass.

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 28, 2019, 07:55:13 AM

Smart move, Shelagh,
C.punctata can be a bit of a thug!
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Does anyone know this Campanula?
Post by: arisaema on August 28, 2019, 08:39:07 AM

That's an understatement, it's one step below rapunculoides, a tiny plant managed to cover a square meter in one year... C. takesimana is slightly better behaved, but both are probably best kept in pots.