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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: vanozzi on September 29, 2011, 08:32:16 AM

Title: Unknown creeper
Post by: vanozzi on September 29, 2011, 08:32:16 AM

Hi-- could somebody ID this creeper please?

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: fleurbleue on September 29, 2011, 11:04:18 AM

I think it could be Asarina scandens...

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: arillady on September 29, 2011, 11:19:15 AM

I too have this creeper in two different shades of pink - its name is escaping me at present.
Doing a quick websearch for Asarina I found the name that I know it by: Maurandya.
It is a happy creeper that could escape as it has plenty of seeds.

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: Maggi Young on September 29, 2011, 02:13:18 PM

Looking at the photos on the internet, to see if I could find a plant with the rich colour of Paul's example, I see that there is a huge variation in the shape and substance of  foliage shown in pictures purporting to be Asarina scandens. Some seem to have the shinier, arrow-shaped leaves of Paul's plant, while others seem to show softer, hairier, more plainly triangular foliage.  I'm confused! :-\





edit for spelling  :-[

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: Lesley Cox on September 29, 2011, 09:17:19 PM

What I had as Maurandya barclaiana was a gorgeous purple but eventually succumbed to frost. It was OK for a few years until a harder winter.

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: vanozzi on October 02, 2011, 10:46:02 AM

Thanks Nicole, Pat, Maggie and Lesley! I'll lable them as mauranya barclaiana and send some off with my seed donation in case anyone is interested.As Pat says, it does set an abundance of seed.

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 02, 2011, 07:30:21 PM

Well I shall apply for some Paul as I lost mine, as mentioned above. It was really beautiful on a 6ft high, shadecloth fence. I's like to have it again. :)

Title: Re: Unknown creeper
Post by: Paul T on November 10, 2011, 10:33:59 AM

Paul,

Sorry, only getting to these ID topics now......

That is a lovely intense colour, almost a magenta by the look of it?  The one I grow is a blue-purpley colour, but not dark like Lesley's sounded.  I didn't realise they came in other colours..... by the sound of it between us (yourself, Pat and I) we have 4 different colours, so there is obviously a lot of variation.  The leaves on mine are definitely slightly furry, enough to remember without having to go out and have a look at it.  Flowers for absolutely ages.  I grow it on the other side of an arch from Clematis armandii, so one flowers in spring, then the other flowers throughout summer. 8)