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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Daisy on January 16, 2012, 11:07:29 AM

Title: Oxford and Cambridge
Post by: Daisy on January 16, 2012, 11:07:29 AM

Still looking through my photos and came across these from this summer.
I wasn't sure which topic to put them under, so I plumped for this one.
Plumbago auriculata and Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.
I like the two blues together.
Certainly nothing leaden about them ::) ::) ::)
Daisy :)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/005-3.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/004-4.jpg)

Title: Re: Oxford and Cambridge
Post by: MikeHardman on January 16, 2012, 09:13:28 PM

Nice Daisy!
I wonder how the Lang's short-tailed blues (Leptotes pirithous) behave around this grouping. They are usually unerring in sniffing out Plumbago, but maybe they might be tempted onto the Ceratostigma in such proximity.

Title: Re: Oxford and Cambridge
Post by: John on January 18, 2012, 10:04:24 AM

No hybrids yet Mike?

Title: Re: Oxford and Cambridge
Post by: MikeHardman on January 18, 2012, 12:14:56 PM

John
:)
Ceratobago not without merit; I'll have a word with my butterflies, see if they fancy giving it a go...

Title: Re: Oxford and Cambridge
Post by: John on January 21, 2012, 01:01:08 AM

It might not be that impossible and a paint brush may also produce a Plumbastigma!