Mystery Nepalese plants

[Tristan_He]

Hi there, some friends of mine went hiking in Nepal last year and brought back a couple of seed pods. They were collected above the treeline (about 3500m I think), but I don't have an exact locality.


The one on the left looks rather like a Buddleia, which makes me wonder if my butterfly bush has seeded into my pots! And yet... it looks a bit different to B. davidii. The right hand one looks worryingly like Prunella vulgaris, which apparently also grows in the Himalayas.


Obviously this is an Apiaceae / umbellifer / cow parsley thing. Any ideas? I'm hoping for a nice Pleurospermum.


Haven't the foggiest! Wondered about Androsace or Codonopsis but it doesn't really look right for either. I've never come across anything before that produces both a rosette and such a leafy stem.

Regards, Tristan

[arisaema]

I'm thinking Schrophulariaceae for the first two, maybe one of the small Veronica for the first one? Second might be a Cyananthus?

[Tristan_He]

Thanks very much Bjørnar. I hadn't thought of Cyananthus as I've never grown these, and it doesn't seem to be one of the usually cultivated ones. We'll see!  I'll post photos if and when any of these flower.

Tristan