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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on June 12, 2009, 06:41:50 PM

Title: 5 petal white flower
Post by: Diane Whitehead on June 12, 2009, 06:41:50 PM

This plant has flowered for several years and has not seeded
or spread.

It is about a metre high, with about 6 stems coming up from
the soil.  The leaves are opposite, and the flowers grow in
small bunches from the upper leaf axils.

It is growing in my lily seedling bed and the only nearby
seedlings were of various Incarvilleas.

Title: Re: 5 petal white flower
Post by: arisaema on June 12, 2009, 06:45:06 PM

Vincetoxicum hirundinaria, usually considered a weed, but a nice one.

Title: Re: 5 petal white flower
Post by: Diane Whitehead on June 12, 2009, 07:50:04 PM

Thank you.

I just checked my seed database and I sowed seeds of it
in 1998 from the AGS seedlist.

It doesn't look as though it will be aggressive, so I will
leave it growing.

Title: Re: 5 petal white flower
Post by: Heather Smith on June 12, 2009, 11:43:33 PM

It looks like the Vincetoxicum - a European mountain plant - and if it is, it is as well to note that it is very poisonous! Be as careful with it as with Aconitum.