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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on September 06, 2019, 01:30:14 PM

Title: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: JohnnyD on September 06, 2019, 01:30:14 PM

Growing in a crack between stone stepd in deep shade. But what is it?
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 06, 2019, 03:36:17 PM

Looks like a form of Kenilworth Ivy, Cymbalaria muralis, or whatever they've renamed it as!
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: JohnnyD on September 06, 2019, 03:57:51 PM

You are absolutely correct Fermi. It was the coloration which confused me -(which is hardly difficult these days ::))
J.

Title: Re: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: arisaema on September 06, 2019, 04:22:00 PM

There's apparently quite a few species in that genus, but I have to admit I've only ever heard of C. muralis... Here's a hairy one that seems to match: https://www.greekflora.gr/el/flowers/1730/Cymbalaria-microcalyx-subsp-microcalyx (https://www.greekflora.gr/el/flowers/1730/Cymbalaria-microcalyx-subsp-microcalyx)

Title: Re: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: Maggi Young on September 06, 2019, 05:08:15 PM

   Cymbalaria microcalyx subsp. alba (Voliotis) Kit Tan, Endemic Pl. Greece, Peloponnese 328 (2001) (2001) 
   seems to fit  and  it  is  endemic to the  Peloponnese

Title: Re: Found in the peloponnese-2
Post by: JohnnyD on September 07, 2019, 02:45:20 PM

What would we do without you Maggi?
Brilliant, thanks.
JohnnyD