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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lvandelft on September 02, 2011, 06:20:38 PM

Title: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: Lvandelft on September 02, 2011, 06:20:38 PM: I hope somebody can tel me the identity of this plant?
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: fleurbleue on September 02, 2011, 06:37:42 PM: I think rather a Lobelia :-\
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: Maggi Young on September 02, 2011, 06:46:41 PM: I see where you get the Pratia idea.... the colour is similar to the pale blue lined pratia flower but with the long narrow tube and little "rabbit ear" top petals, it is it more a lobelia.
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: shelagh on September 02, 2011, 07:23:11 PM: Luit if it was a Pratia it would already have covered the pot and the km2 around it. Pratia's are pretty blue thugs. :o
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: ChrisB on September 02, 2011, 07:26:12 PM: I'm betting with Maggi, looks a lot like a lobelia to me. Where did you get it?
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: Diane Clement on September 02, 2011, 08:28:38 PM: Aren't Pratias all now Lobelia? ;D
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: Maggi Young on September 02, 2011, 08:41:29 PM: Quote from: Diane Clement on September 02, 2011, 08:28:38 PM
Aren't Pratias all now Lobelia? ;D
Are they? Good grief!
Title: Re: Possibly a Pratia?
Post by: Lvandelft on September 02, 2011, 10:47:29 PM: Quote from: Diane Clement on September 02, 2011, 08:28:38 PM
Aren't Pratias all now Lobelia? ;D
Well, in that case I presume the plant is a Lobelia. This time name changing made the choice much easier ;D ::)
Actually I thought of a P. pedunculata County Park first, but I never had this one.
Now I still don't know if the shown plant is hardy in winter. The pratia's I know are all hardy here.
So if being a Lobelia, is it one of those newer annual hybrids of these days??