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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: michael z on August 23, 2020, 02:52:39 PM
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Hello,
I grow this two alpines a lot of years in my alpine garden. Unfortunately I do not know the names. Could you help me?
Michael
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Hello Michael,
The first one is a houseleek (Sempervivum) - I'm afraid I don't know which one, there are quite a lot of species and thousands of cultivars! It reminds me a little of S. x barbulatum. Another possibility is Jovibarba allionii.
I'm afraid I can't help with the second, what do the flowers look like?
Best, Tristan
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I thought Jovibarba allionii, too, for the first pic.
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2nd photo looks like Gypsophila aretioides.
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Thank you Gypsohpila seems to be right. In my opinion its not Sempervivum as the rosettes are quite small. Max 1cm in diameter. I should have taken the fotos with a scale. I expect some Draba species or something like that. What do you think?
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I wondered what those whitish (sun-bleached?) dried little stemlike things were in the first pic. Are they old flowering stems? They certainly could not be from any Sempervivum or Jovibarba.
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Good point Rick! I think we really need photos of the flowers.
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Michael, could you send a closeup of the rosette of no. 1? Also of any dead flower stems?
Also, do the individual rosettes die after flowering?
Best, Tristan
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Hi Tristan,
I will do. Thank you.
Michael
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Here the pictures
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Mmm... thanks, I see what you mean about the size! I'm not sure to be honest, but I expect somebody else will know. Perhaps one of the Himalayan Androsace?
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I am not sure what an Androsace seed pod looks like, but the remnant in the second pic could certainly be from a Draba.