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Title: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 12, 2013, 10:12:10 AM

Here is an easy one. Obviously from a flower, but which one?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Fermi on May 12, 2013, 03:59:00 PM

Oenothera? Or maybe Calylophus?
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 12, 2013, 06:24:03 PM

I made a mistake when I gave this riddle number 45, it should have been 46, which I have now corrected-

This was of course far to easy, so to accept the identity, you have to be more specific, Fermi, give me the species, please.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Alice on May 12, 2013, 09:36:03 PM

Oenothera fruticosa?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 12, 2013, 10:41:44 PM

Not quite right.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Alice on May 13, 2013, 09:21:12 PM

Oenothera macrocarpa?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 13, 2013, 11:49:55 PM

Not that one either, Alice

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Alice on May 14, 2013, 08:48:13 PM

Oenothera lamarckiana?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 14, 2013, 10:13:45 PM

Try again!

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: jmw on May 15, 2013, 08:09:51 AM

How about O. biennis ?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 15, 2013, 08:50:26 AM

Sorry, wrong.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: John on May 17, 2013, 11:03:14 PM

Is it O. speciosa?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 18, 2013, 11:03:07 AM

Of course it is, John. The rest of you were fooled by the yellow centre in the otherwise very pink flower. It is a very easy perennial, drought-tolerant, and quite showy with the masses of flowers it produces from sping until the end of the, but it  spreads very easily, so I suppose it should be called invasive. It is easily weeded, though.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: John on May 25, 2013, 06:37:15 PM

Last April we were in western Crete on the coast and this was growing sheltered only by the low wall. Quite impressive and possibly a happy coastal plant?

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Alice on May 26, 2013, 10:03:13 AM

Now that's what a call sly, Jorun!
Looks like a lovely plant, one for the wish list.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 26, 2013, 10:13:25 AM

Yes, it is lovely, those in my garden look just like John's photo, but beware, it spreads very easily.

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Umbrian on May 27, 2013, 07:22:09 AM

I fell in love with this plant when I saw it growing all over the place when we were in Greece the other year. Having obtained one I have been most disappointed with its performance here as after the first flush of flowers it gives up! Am persevering by relocating it and hoping for better things ???

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: JTh on May 27, 2013, 11:04:54 AM

I'm pretty sure they will come back, Carole.  When the first period with flowers is over, I tidy up a little, then they will come back later in the summer. I have a (bad) photo taken just before I left Greece in the beginning of May, the second one is from the beginning of July (2011), with the second flowering. They seem to bloom all at once, take a rest, and then come back in unison a couple of  months later

Title: Re: What is this 46
Post by: Umbrian on May 28, 2013, 06:31:05 AM

Will persevere Jorun because, as you say, they put on a wonderful show with the delicate flowers all coming out together. After that I have just left them to their own devices thinking that like many things they do just have this one flush of flowers. This year I shall trim them back a bit and await results. I dohave other Oenothera, the names of which escape me at the moment, that behave very differently with the flowers coming over a long period and find them very worthwhile plants for the conditions here.