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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on November 08, 2020, 01:30:44 PM
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Peter Farkasch who is known to many of the showing fraternity sent me this picture from his mobile phone to mine the other day. He is not technical, I am half a % more technical than he is and at his request have managed to get the pic from the phone to computer. It is a small picture but I hope it may serve.
He calls it Oxalis no name and would like help in identifying it.
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It has a look of Oxalis speciosa about it, Shelagh - especially if the leaves are as furry as they appear to be. It's one of those Oxalis the Wallises have Show success with at the Autumn shows.
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Hi
Peter also sent me pictures. The first picture shows it with Oxalis melanosticta/speciosa/Ken Aslet to the top right. The unknown plant is much smaller and has unusual leaves.
The leaves seem quite distinctive, thick and leathery, and heavily veined, which makes it quite unlike any yellow oxalis I know. Vaguely reminiscent of Oxalis pulchella var tomentosa, but the flowers of that are very different. I guess it could possibly be a yellow form of Oxalis pulchella, but I have not been able to find a picture of one like this.
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Thanks Jon you are obviously many % more technical than me. Let's hope we get a result for Peter.
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Perhaps a good idea to consult Bob and Rannveig Wallis - they showed a lovely pot of O. speciosa with good tight little foliage and flowers in their recent Zoom talk.
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Hi Maggi
I remember the plant. In fact it was probably my picture - Bob asked me for all sorts when he was preparing the lecture. But in Oxalis speciosa / melanosticta / Ken Aslet (the same plant seems to go by all three names), the leaves are covered in fine silky hairs. The leaves on Peter's plant are what makes me think this is something different.
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Hi Maggi
I remember the plant. In fact it was probably my picture - Bob asked me for all sorts when he was preparing the lecture. But in Oxalis speciosa / melanosticta / Ken Aslet (the same plant seems to go by all three names), the leaves are covered in fine silky hairs. The leaves on Peter's plant are what makes me think this is something different.
Thanks Jon, yes, I think it was your photo. In the initial photos of this plant in question I thought the leaves were more furry than they appear in your later shots.
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Peter says someone has suggested the identity Oxalis lasiorrhiza. Google finds pictures for that which look a good match.
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Oxalis lasiorrhiza
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https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.sam0051766-0