Anemone caelestina

[WimB]

Today I got a plant of Anemone caelestina from a friend who had received it from another friend who didn't know what to do with it... I liked the leaves so I took it home but...

now I don't know what to do with it. I've never heard anything about it and there seems to be no information about it on the internet. Anyone knows where it's from, what it's growing conditions are,...?

[Maggi Young]

That is a puzzle, Wim. I have no idea about that name and I cannot even think of another with which it might have been confused   (I'm trying to think laterally about names I don't recognise these days, in case it is an error! )

[WimB]

Anemone caerulea?? But I don't think it's that one.

It would seem there's an article (Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, hainan, The Corea, The Lichu Archipelago, And the island of HongKong; together with their distribution and synonymy) in "Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany" Vol 23 Issue 150 in which there's a mention of this plant but I can't open the article on internet.

[Giles]

Dear Wim,
It isn't in The Flora of China.
Giles

[WimB]

Hi Giles,

I'll probably have to wait untill it flowers before I'll be able to determine which species it is.

[Lori S.]

Anemone coelestina?

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242000104

[WimB]

"Leaf blade nearly 3-lobed, ovate-oblong."

That's it. Thanks Lori

[Maggi Young]

Well done, Lori, not a name I'd heard of.... interesting to see the synonyms there, thanks!