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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Umbrian on April 20, 2013, 07:09:02 AM

Title: Italian "dandelion" ID'd by Oron as Taraxacum officinale
Post by: Umbrian on April 20, 2013, 07:09:02 AM

The countryside around us is full of this tiny yellow composite in the early spring but I have never seen it in such profusion as this year after a very wet late winter early spring. Now the sunshine and rising temperatures have brought it into flower everywhere. I have never discovered exactly what it is - the locals call it a dandelion but it is not the dandelion I know!

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Umbrian on April 20, 2013, 07:10:56 AM

Still haven't mastered multiple photo posting - here is the close up!

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: pamela on April 20, 2013, 08:24:06 AM

Hello Carole ! It might be Coltsfoot  (Tussilago farfara)

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: oron peri on April 20, 2013, 12:59:49 PM

Carole,
a photo of the leaf is needed in order to identify it 100%, i supose it is Taraxacum megalorrhizon.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Umbrian on April 21, 2013, 06:15:48 AM

OK - will do.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Umbrian on April 23, 2013, 06:47:27 AM

Here you are Oron - 'photo taken in garden after a lovely refreshing shower :)

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: oron peri on April 25, 2013, 11:08:11 AM

Well,

Seems more like Taraxacum officinale.

Title: Re: Italian "dandelion" ID'd by Oron as Taraxacum officinale
Post by: Umbrian on April 26, 2013, 07:09:07 AM

Thanks Oron, every year when the countryside around us is lit up with yellow fields and roadside verges, I have been meaning to find out the name of this plant and now, after 15 years, you have given me an answer :)