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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on June 09, 2009, 03:11:54 PM

Title: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: JohnnyD on June 09, 2009, 03:11:54 PM: Any ideas what this smashing little plant is anybody?
It was found in many places in Andalucia (El Torcal, Ronda etc.) on a trip we made with the Smethys last week.
Not quite a sedum and not quite Mucizonia - I am at a loss! :-[
JohnnyD.
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: Carlo on June 09, 2009, 03:22:13 PM: ...and the foliage?
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: JohnnyD on June 09, 2009, 03:56:53 PM: Oops - sorry Carlo! ::)
J.
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: Maggi Young on June 09, 2009, 04:35:03 PM: Thanks for the foliage shot, Johnny: not that I'm any the wiser! It is a little smasher, though, as you say..... I look forward to learning what it might be. ::)
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: Lvandelft on June 09, 2009, 04:53:47 PM: John, this was not so difficult to find out, if having the right literature.

Sedum mucizonia (or Mucizonia sedoides) it's annual.
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: JohnnyD on June 09, 2009, 04:58:16 PM: My book says Mucizonia sedoides is hairless! And the pics on Google look completely different.
Happy to take your word Luit but .... ???
J.
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: arisaema on June 09, 2009, 05:13:40 PM: Are you sure they are synonymous? Here's a picture labelled Sedum mucizonia that looks like your unknown: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_mm_/510982696/

Edit: ...and a book link giving the synonym Mucizonia hispida for S. mucizonia. (http://books.google.com/books?id=Jo9VgQAsMtkC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Mucizonia+sedoides+Sedum+mucizonia&source=bl&ots=qG6qB5nqBV&sig=MF8DkkArklKutECqZidJlEa6jCM&hl=en&ei=dIsuStviEpGhjAeY4NjMBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5)
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: Lvandelft on June 09, 2009, 06:33:53 PM: Quote from: arisaema on June 09, 2009, 05:13:40 PM
Are you sure they are synonymous? Here's a picture labelled Sedum mucizonia that looks like your unknown: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_mm_/510982696/

That one is rather hairy too... ::)
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: JohnnyD on June 09, 2009, 07:29:07 PM: I am convinced. :D, Mucizonia hispida sounds right.

This link has a piccy.

www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/ingeborg/plants/plants.html

Thanks for all your efforts.
J.
Title: Re: Mystery crassulaceae
Post by: Carlo on June 09, 2009, 09:11:43 PM: Congrats on the i.d. As Maggi says, it's a fabulous little thing. All the more reason to set seed if it is an annual...