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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Perennials => Topic started by: Alisdair on December 30, 2011, 11:34:11 AM
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We saw this in April 2010 on the MGS trip to the foothills of the Lycian Taurus mountains, in south west Turkey. It was identified there as Centaurea reuteriana (or reuterana as there is some disagreement in the literature about the spelling), but The Plant List has followed IPNI in reclassifying it as Cyanea reuterana. Either way, it’s an interesting centaurea with soft felty leaves, unfortunately rather swamped here in the other vegetation. It’s endemic to Turkey, and a threatened species. I don’t think it’s in cultivation.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I was surprised there weren't more cornflowers popping up on the forum!
This is one we got during the winter as a dormant plant in a pot and were thrilled to see it come into bloom from rather intriguing buds.
The name on the label is Centaurea phrygia but I wonder if it's actually ssp pseudophrygia
cheers
fermi
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Lovely seedheads!
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Fermi, This is a picture I took in April 2011 of one of several seed-grown Centaurea bella (from Turkey), which we'd planted I think the year before in our dry hot garden in southern Greece. Since planting they've never been watered, and thrive, flowering for the first few months each year. They stay in leaf all year, getting rather more silvery-leafed in summer then greening as soon as it rains in autumn. But they've never self-sown seedlings, rather to our surprise.