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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: kiwi on August 10, 2009, 08:57:26 AM

Title: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: kiwi on August 10, 2009, 08:57:26 AM: Took this shot last summer but had misplaced and not named.
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 10, 2009, 09:11:34 PM: Looks like a Sedum to me.
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: dagmar on February 28, 2012, 07:08:10 AM: Quote from: kiwi on August 10, 2009, 08:57:26 AM

Took this shot last summer but had misplaced and not named.

It could be Sedum alpestre
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: Anthony Darby on February 28, 2012, 07:48:21 AM: Is Sedum alpestre likely to be found in New Zealand? Sedum acre would be a more likely candidate?
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: jandals on February 28, 2012, 08:20:40 AM: Hi Doug . You are venturing into my field of expertise now . Looks like Sedum acre to me and Anthony just beat me to it . We had a few plants flower down this way too

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Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: Lvandelft on February 28, 2012, 09:11:33 AM: NOT Sedum acre! Never seen them with such shining(glossy) leaves.
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: Lesley Cox on February 28, 2012, 09:31:29 AM: I understood it to be Sedum acre. Whatever it is, it has become a major and irradicable weed in Central Otago, and presumably in Canterbury too. As if we needed another one!
Title: Re: NZ Canterbury lower alpine plant identification.
Post by: dagmar on February 28, 2012, 12:09:22 PM: Quote from: Anthony Darby on February 28, 2012, 07:48:21 AM
Is Sedum alpestre likely to be found in New Zealand? Sedum acre would be a more likely candidate?

I am consulted plant with Ray Stephenson. It is really Sedum acre.