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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Hilary on March 18, 2019, 08:22:06 AM
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Another plant in the Madrid greenhouse .
The photo is OK this time but I have no photo of the identifying notice
can anyone help me with this one please?
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This looks like Asclepias curassavica.
I have this here in Malaga albeit the flowers are more orange, so maybe this is one is a yellow variety (or do I mean cultivar?). Butterflies LOVE it and it is popular in public gardens and parks: here it is evergreen and flowers more or less all year round. Mine is mainly in shade in winter but full sun in summer and is happy as Larry.
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Many thanks Pallas,
I think you are right. Asclepias curassavica it is
I see there is an all yellow variety named 'Silky Gold'
The photo was taken from above whereas a photo from the side would have shown the pieces of the flower hanging down better.
I must have been in a 'hurry up, let's get on to the next bit of the day's programme' mode
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I See that Asclepias curassavica is mentioned in several issues of TMG including number 90, October 2017 in COMPROMISES by Caroline Harbouri
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Looking through THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 23 January 2001, for something else entirely, I came across
ASCLEPIAS CURASSAVICA by Sue Graham