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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 05:17:34 PM

Title: Plants I've seen in Spain
Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 05:17:34 PM: I'm in Spain for a month, mainly to escape the cold winter from where we live, but also there to look for plants and minerals.
A lot of the Spanish plants are unknown to me. I hope to get more information here. If possible, I try to gather seeds from the plants I see. I'm now in the region Valencia/Alicante, but hope to go up higher in the mountains later.

The pictures are not always clear. It's hard to make pictures in full sun.

This is nr. 1: It smells like Thyme.

Edited to show better pictures.
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 05:20:47 PM: picture 2
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 05:34:15 PM: nr. 2
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 06:32:48 PM: nr. 3
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 06:41:15 PM: nr. 4
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 06:48:24 PM: My nr. 5 are lichens I collected for an American friend, so no pictures of those.

Nr. 6
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 06:58:52 PM: nr. 7
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 07:32:59 PM: nr. 8
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 07:40:09 PM: nr. 9
This one is really prickly
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 08:36:52 PM: nr. 10
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 08:48:28 PM: nr. 12 Solanum?
Have no picture of the ripe fruit (orange). Noticed the fruits turn from green to orange and than to black.
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 09:08:38 PM: I googled this one, because I have Fumaria officinalis. Mine in Belgium is completely purple, this one is white with a purple end, but googling it, it is also F. officinalis. So now I'm confused.
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 09:13:15 PM: nr. 15
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Post by: Jonna on December 24, 2012, 09:18:53 PM: This one is growing everywhere, like a weed, but I like it. Hope I can grow it in my zone 6 as an annual.
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Post by: bulborum on December 24, 2012, 10:23:57 PM: Probably the worst weed of the world :(
Does there exist a country near the sea without this weed ?? :o

Roland
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Post by: Anthony Darby on December 25, 2012, 02:10:15 AM: The UK. 8)
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Post by: JPB on December 25, 2012, 09:19:29 AM: Jonna,

nr. 2 Cistus albidus
nr. 4 Pistacia terebinthus
nr. 6 Erica arborea
nr. 10 Teucrium spec.

Hans
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Post by: Gerdk on December 25, 2012, 10:58:19 AM: Quote from: bulborum on December 24, 2012, 10:23:57 PM
Probably the worst weed of the world :(
Does there exist a country near the sea without this weed ?? :o
Roland

Oxalis pes-caprae? Is it? There are nice multi-petalled forms.

Gerd
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Post by: bulborum on December 25, 2012, 11:09:44 AM: and lots less invasive
I grow two collections from Corsica and Sicily
I know also a place at the Algarve where they grow
that collection died :(
they are fantastic and you can't compare them with the weedy ones

Roland
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 04:05:03 PM: I've never seen the Oxalis pes-caprae in Belgium or the Netherlands. What I read about it, it's not hardy there. I can see here in Spain, that it is very invasive. But the leaves and flowers are nice, so if I can find seeds I'm going to try it as an annual. Since it's not hardy in my zone 6, I don't think it will get invasive in Belgium.

Thank you Hans for the identification of 4 of the plants I found.
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 08:51:22 PM: I think this is Centranthus ruber. Am I right?
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 08:55:43 PM: nr. 18
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 09:00:03 PM: nr. 19
This grass has tiny yellow flowers. I also noticed a black powder if the blooms were gone.
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 09:02:52 PM: nr. 20
Salvia or Stachys?
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 09:06:53 PM: nr. 21
This Sedum has very long flower spikes.
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Post by: Jonna on December 25, 2012, 09:22:18 PM: nr. 22
Malva? Lavatera? Hibiscus?