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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Rogan on August 13, 2010, 09:08:13 AM

Title: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: Rogan on August 13, 2010, 09:08:13 AM

Perhaps I'll leave my little plant here in the hope that someone will recognise it: found growing in some numbers south of the village of Loxton, Northern Cape province. Tiny flowers arising from a semi-succulent rosette on short stems (20 - 40 mm); flower colour variable from white to pastel pink and blue.

Title: Re: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: shelagh on August 13, 2010, 12:40:58 PM

Absolutely beautiful Rogan, I trust you are going back for seed.

Title: Re: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: ashley on August 13, 2010, 01:21:04 PM

Sorry no idea Rogan but it's a nice plant.  Can you narrow it down to a likely family at least?

Title: Re: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: Rogan on August 13, 2010, 03:24:33 PM

"Can you narrow it down to a likely family at least?"

I haven't a clue Ashley - Polemoniaceae, Verbenaceae, ...   ???

I probably won't be able to collect any seed in the near future, but it is certainly worth looking out for.

Title: Re: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: Rogan on August 25, 2010, 09:30:23 AM

Thanks to Silverhill Seeds' catalogue I have narrowed its identity down to a Manulea species in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is an annual.

Title: Re: Unknown plant from the Karoo
Post by: Maggi Young on August 25, 2010, 01:17:08 PM

Well done, Rogan ..... now then, anyone got a copy of this :
Hilliard, O.M. (1994)  The Manuleae. A tribe of the Scrophulariaceae  Edinburgh University Press.... so we can learn more?  ;D