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Jupiter

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Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« on: November 12, 2012, 09:05:27 AM »
Does anyone recognise this? Please excuse the picture quality; photographed with my wife's mobile phone. The flowers are only about 10mm long, woody creeping rhizomes with multiple vertical stems, clump forming, small pubescent leaves.

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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2012, 10:29:06 AM »
Looks like a Jovellana, but I don't know enough about the range to be absolute. Usually a delightful small shrub when I have seen it.
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Edge of Chiltern hills, 25 miles west of London, England

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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2012, 10:34:17 AM »

Thank you so much Brian. I was very taken with the thing.
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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2012, 10:43:00 AM »
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3639.msg96400#msg96400
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5556.msg157690#msg157690   - couple of posts from Gerd K. about his J. punctata.
Marvelous plant - from Chile, I think.


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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2012, 06:31:41 AM »

Flowers :o ..Yes !!! Thanks the southern Hemisphere  ;D ;D ;D

Very nice plant Jupiter  ;)

I never seen that before  :P

If you have some seed of this plant this year , i'am interested in ?

Difficult to germinate ?

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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2012, 08:07:53 AM »
By Jove, a dainty little flower. 8)
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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2012, 12:45:26 PM »
Try Jovellana violacea. A small shrub making about 600cm Gets cut back in hard Scottish winters but survives and breaks from the base.
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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2012, 05:29:57 PM »
Jovellana sinclairii is another which is fairly hardy in Scotland.  It grew outside for a few years at the Cruickshank Garden in Aberdeen.
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Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2012, 12:06:41 AM »
Easy to read, IMPOSSIBLE to pronounce    (ho-vel-YAY-uh)

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