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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: arisaema on July 14, 2010, 02:36:20 PM

Title: Unknown something from Mugecuo Lake, Sichuan - Veratrilla?
Post by: arisaema on July 14, 2010, 02:36:20 PM

I'm not even able to identify what family this one belongs to... It's in a 9cm pot, and the leaves are fairly thick and succulent. Anyone care to make a guess?

Title: Re: Unknown something from Mugecuo Lake, Sichuan
Post by: Maggi Young on July 14, 2010, 02:46:44 PM

Gentianaceae?

Title: Re: Unknown something from Mugecuo Lake, Sichuan
Post by: arisaema on July 14, 2010, 03:21:22 PM

You know, it might be Veratrilla baillonii..? Gentianaceae didn't occur to me as the leaves feel wrong, they are crisper and more brittle than the big leaved, Chinese Gentiana and Swertia I'm familiar with.

Title: Re: Unknown something from Mugecuo Lake, Sichuan - Veratrilla?
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 14, 2010, 11:40:04 PM

I wondered about a rather vigorous nivalid primula but I can't feel the texture, (let alone the price  :D) which might rule that out. Anyway, you'd know a primula.

Title: Re: Unknown something from Mugecuo Lake, Sichuan - Veratrilla?
Post by: arisaema on July 15, 2010, 11:44:42 AM

It has the feel of some thick-leaved Primula (think P. x pubescens or P. parryi without the stench), but I think the roots are wrong, and it didn't have an overwintering bud. (And I think the slope it grew on was too dry for most primulas to survive...)