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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on November 20, 2020, 03:31:43 PM

Title: central asia
Post by: FrazerHenderson on November 20, 2020, 03:31:43 PM

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Seen in central Asia at 2700m asl growing in a thicket/ any ideas gratefully received

Title: Re: central asia
Post by: ian mcdonald on November 20, 2020, 09:43:51 PM

Frazer, could your plant be a Gentian. G. macrophylla?

Title: Re: central asia
Post by: Alex S. on November 21, 2020, 09:48:59 PM

It looks like Linum species. Possibly Linum olgae.

Title: Re: central asia
Post by: DaveM on November 22, 2020, 05:31:17 PM

Agreed. Linum olgae

See www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=403705
There's also Linum altaicum in the region but the pedicels are longer than the leaves.

Title: Re: central asia
Post by: FrazerHenderson on November 25, 2020, 09:16:27 PM

Alex, Dave - thanks for your help, much appreciated.