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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Annuals => Topic started by: JTh on May 13, 2015, 05:55:07 PM

Title: Centaurium maritimum
Post by: JTh on May 13, 2015, 05:55:07 PM

I saw this little plant for the first time this year, it was growing on the dirt road just outside our house in Halkidiki. It was a beautiful little plant with nice, star-shaped yellow gentian-like flowers, it is annual or biennial. Not very big, but I wouldn’t mind having it in my flowerbeds. The plant is salt-tolerant, so it should be suitable in areas near the sea, like ours. I hope I can find some seeds when I go back in a  few weeks’ time.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5448/17532680316_72118118b9_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sHiz2E)
P5090895-Edit Centaurium maritimum.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/sHiz2E) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8898/17556766962_84051f53a9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sKr29E)
P5090900-Edit Centaurium maritimum.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/sKr29E) by Jorun Tharaldsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46063510@N03/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Centaurium maritimum
Post by: Alisdair on May 15, 2015, 05:16:57 PM

Lovely pictures, Jorun, very three-dimensional.

Title: Re: Centaurium maritimum
Post by: JTh on May 15, 2015, 08:51:35 PM

Thank you, Alisdair. I'm pleased to see that even the small micro 4/3 camera can produce a pleasantly blurred background.
I think the plant is garden-worthy.