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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lori S. on June 15, 2011, 06:14:40 AM
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I have grown other dianthus in the guise of D. alpinus, so I thought I'd ask if anyone can say if this is the real thing, please? It seems to have the petal markings, no? It's been happy in a tufa bed, since last year from seed (though that is no indication, of course, of how it may act in the long-term).
Thanks.
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I have grown other dianthus in the guise of D. alpinus, so I thought I'd ask if anyone can say if this is the real thing, please? It seems to have the petal markings, no? It's been happy in a tufa bed, since last year from seed (though that is no indication, of course, of how it may act in the long-term).
Thanks.
Just as difficult to identify in the wild sometimes, Lori!
This was a little too 'leggy' for D. alpinus but didn't cry out D. pavonius or D. seguieri either?
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The leaves of Dianthus alpinus are dark green, and the flowers are to 3cm across and borne singly on short stalks.
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Many thanks Franz ... you show a fine example.
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Franz's picture says it all, for both foliage and flower, so no, yours is not, Lori.
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Acckk! I just realized I goofed... the seeds were labelled as D. glacialis, not D. alpinus. I got them mixed up somewhere along the way as I labelled my photos. :-[ Sorry.
(Well, I guess I could ask if it really is D. glacialis... ?)
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It could well be Lori. As I said in another thread, save the seed as it's quite short-lived, even annual sometimes.
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http://botany.cz/cs/dianthus-glacialis
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That's an excellent picture in your link Josef.
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Thank you, Franz and Josef, for the very useful photo references.