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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: hanninkj on April 13, 2011, 09:18:31 PM

Title: Paris ?????
Post by: hanninkj on April 13, 2011, 09:18:31 PM

I have a Paris from China with a big rhizome and the height is about 1 meter.
Any idea?
Here is a picture.

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Maggi Young on April 13, 2011, 09:25:50 PM

Welcome to the forum,  hanninkj.

Several good Paris growers around here, they may be able to help. 

Super close-up of the flower, have you a shot of the foliage?

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: hanninkj on April 13, 2011, 09:38:15 PM

Yes, I have a picture of the plant.

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Maggi Young on April 13, 2011, 09:40:28 PM

I cannot ID the plant... but it is a big handsome plant, that's for sure!

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Carlo on April 13, 2011, 10:53:00 PM

Geez...that's a tough one. I think you should send it HERE!

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 13, 2011, 10:59:17 PM

Ah, Paris in the spring. 8)

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 13, 2011, 11:08:36 PM

Don't be silly. It's autumn, even in Auckland.

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: manicbotanic on April 14, 2011, 05:01:10 PM

hi hanninky.
looks very similar to my plant which i think is vietnamensis?i got it as chen yi sp 305.if you look back on plant idents here i posted some pics a few weeks back.
sean..

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: hanninkj on April 14, 2011, 08:02:35 PM

@manicbotanic,

Thank you for the information. Now Ihave 2 flowers.
Efloras says: Ovary violet.

So the conclusion can be Paris vietnamensis.

Ton

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: manicbotanic on April 24, 2011, 12:25:22 PM

any ideas i bought as marbled purlple leaves....

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 24, 2011, 10:49:24 PM

The picture's too big to see all at once but I think it would make a great decoration for an Easter bonnet. ;D

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: hanninkj on April 30, 2011, 07:46:45 PM

I have an other Paris without name and the size is only 10 cm.
What can it be?

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: johnw on April 30, 2011, 08:03:58 PM

Quote from: Carlo on April 13, 2011, 10:53:00 PM

Geez...that's a tough one. I think you should send it HERE!

Yes hanninkj I agree, send it to Carlo!  ;)

Carlo - I hope you are weathering this wretched election stuff. Mercifully not long-lived but painful enough for someone having immigrated. Hardly a suitable greeting for you eh?

johnw

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: johnw on April 30, 2011, 08:05:04 PM

Quote from: hanninkj on April 30, 2011, 07:46:45 PM

I have an other Paris without name and the size is only 10 cm.
What can it be?

I would be quite happy to be able to say I had A Paris. At least one alive; here they behave as if they have made a hemisphaere change.

johnw

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: Carlo on May 01, 2011, 03:27:21 AM

Ha! A 38 day election campaign vs. the 2 year haul that has already started in the US? Canada is a very interesting place.

Back to Paris (the plant, not the place), I see that our good friend has another beauty...and blooming at only 10cm! I'll have to take a closer look....

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: manicbotanic on May 01, 2011, 12:03:16 PM

this is a close up of the ovary.hope its clear...

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: johnw on May 01, 2011, 02:21:37 PM

Quote from: Carlo on May 01, 2011, 03:27:21 AM

Canada is a very interesting place.

Carlo

Glad to hear it isn't too painful. Just a few hours left until they all shut-up.

I think it was ex PM Paul Martin who said "Canada works in practice but not in theory".  Day to day we're all fixated on the theory.

johnw

Title: Re: Paris ?????
Post by: johnw on May 01, 2011, 08:36:00 PM

Quote from: johnw on April 30, 2011, 08:05:04 PM

Quote from: hanninkj on April 30, 2011, 07:46:45 PM

I have an other Paris without name and the size is only 10 cm.
What can it be?

I would be quite happy to be able to say I had A Paris. At least one alive; here they behave as if they have made a hemisphaere change.

johnw

Having said that I just found 3 pots of perfectly healthy P. quadrifolia getting ready to flower!  The one to the right is sporting 5 leaves. ::)

No sign of P. polyphylla so I suspect it's up to its old tricks.

johnw