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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on September 11, 2010, 07:24:41 PM

Title: Hummingbird flowers
Post by: Diane Whitehead on September 11, 2010, 07:24:41 PM
A friend has a collection of cups and saucers showing hummingbirds.
The birds are named but the accompanying flowers are not.  They are
all presumably from the Andes, as that is where most hummingbirds live.

There are bomarea, impatiens and fuchsias, though we don't know the species.
 I would love to grow the purple one - in my greenhouse I guess - if I knew what
it is.  And one has funny spiky seedballs, similar to some clematis species.



Title: Re: Hummingbird flowers
Post by: Lesley Cox on September 12, 2010, 12:24:30 AM
What lovely things they are Diane. They remind me a little of 3 plates I have with Geranium - or probably Pelargonium - flowers on. I must find them, still packed away in a box from when we moved over 13 years ago!
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