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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: mark smyth on April 29, 2007, 10:42:23 PM

Title: unknown Compositae
Post by: mark smyth on April 29, 2007, 10:42:23 PM

I was given a plant of this beauty while in Dublin - 3rd time in three weeks. It's ground hugging and seems to seed around. The flowering stem rises a few cm above the mat of leaves. The flower darkens with age to deep pink

Title: Re: unknown Compositae
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 29, 2007, 11:57:22 PM

Mark it would help if there were some foliage shown or even the whole plant. There's Chrysanthemum catananche but the white parts of that should be closer to cream I think and then there are two or three Leucanthemum forms or hybrids which have that slightly murky pink ring around the disc. There's a hybrid between Rhodanthemum mawii and something else which is matlike rather than bushy like its parent, and so on.

Title: Re: unknown Compositae
Post by: mark smyth on April 30, 2007, 12:19:41 AM

until tomorrow when I will take a close up of my plant here it is in the scree in the owners garden

Title: Re: unknown Compositae
Post by: mark smyth on April 30, 2007, 12:36:43 AM

I googled it and found one similar flower. It comes from Morocco so maybe I'll have to keep it iin a pot

Title: Re: unknown Compositae
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2007, 12:41:18 AM

Looks like what I have as Leucanthemum alpinum x Rhodanthemum mawii (or vv) but not sure of correct name for the former now.

Title: Re: unknown Compositae
Post by: mark smyth on April 30, 2007, 08:40:09 AM

the plant is a bit squashed from being in a bag for a couple of days