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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Brian Ellis on June 11, 2010, 10:02:11 AM

Title: Scrophularia identification
Post by: Brian Ellis on June 11, 2010, 10:02:11 AM: Can anyone identify this plant please, it is a Scrophularia I am certain, but which?
Title: Re: Scrophularia identification
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 13, 2010, 11:38:29 PM: Viewed 20 times Brian, and no answers?
Title: Re: Scrophularia identification
Post by: Maggi Young on June 13, 2010, 11:43:35 PM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 13, 2010, 11:38:29 PM
Viewed 20 times Brian, and no answers?
It's got me beaten..... :(
Title: Re: Scrophularia identification
Post by: Brian Ellis on June 14, 2010, 09:41:34 AM: I know it's a real puzzle. We also sent a picture to John Simmons (ex curator of the living collections at Kew) he suggests
S. sambucifolia. Looking at Google I think he may be correct, he often comes on some of our weekends away and is an absolute goldmine of information.

It's a lovely plant growing well in woodland conditions to about a metre, I'm hoping it will have got through the winter but there is no sign of it yet :-\
Title: Re: Scrophularia identification
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2010, 11:54:28 AM: Well, those Kew chaps are no slouches.... JS has surely come up with the correct answer in Scrophularia sambucifolia ........ I love the clue of those sambuca-like leaves we can just spot in your picture..... 8)
I was visualising a plant about 15- 18 inches high ( 35-45cms) ..... so hard to get idea of scale at times and your plant is clearly just extending in the photo... just hope it will reappear for you.