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Steve Garvie

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Chinese Epimedium Species
« on: May 03, 2015, 12:13:17 PM »
I bought the three plants below about 18 years ago. The labels have long been lost but all three were supposedly from wild chinese species -a number of which had been brought in to cultivation at that time.

I know very little about Epimedium (and not much about anything else!) and I hoped that someone could put a name to these.
Each "species" has two images -a general view and a close-up of the flower:

Species 1:



Species 2:



Species 3:

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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 12:40:01 PM »
Is species 3 Epimedium acuminatum? - Yes, happy with this.

EDIT: the hairy leaf margins are like E. epsteinii, but flowers are closer to E. acuminatum.
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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 12:49:15 PM »
Species 1 looks like the Japanese E. diphyllum.
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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 01:01:31 PM »
Species 2: E. pauciflorum?
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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2015, 08:50:26 AM »
Thanks Matt!

Your suggestions regarding acuminatum and pauciflorum seem to fit the bill exactly and I believe that they were amongst the plants I initially bought.

E. diphyllum is not a species I knowingly bought but following your suggestion I have compared my plant with images online -again you appear to be spot on!

Many thanks,

Steve
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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2015, 09:39:10 AM »
A little reminder that we have some excellent Epimedium references, complete with photos, here in the forum.  Many supplied by Mark McDonough - an Epi Enthusiast if ever there was one - and Wim Boens, too.  :)

There is even a section with various Epimedium threads brought together, which starts with Hans Joschko's 2009 thread  : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3374.0     8)   
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Re: Chinese Epimedium Species
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2015, 07:00:18 PM »
I thought my ears were burning  ;D

I agree with the IDs, and also wanted to mention, what fine photographs of Epimedium, not the easiest plant to capture well.
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