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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: KatG on December 03, 2016, 07:01:13 PM

Title: Rock Plant ID'd by Fleur Pavlidis as Lithodora zahnii
Post by: KatG on December 03, 2016, 07:01:13 PM

Can somebody please remind me what this is?  It is growing on a rock face, at about 300 metres above sea level and has lovely pink/blue/mauve flowers. There is a white version too which I have seen growing much lower down. It usually flowers in January/February, but is early this year.

Title: Re: Rock Plant
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on December 03, 2016, 07:14:51 PM

It's Lithodora zahnii, endemic to your area. I know because I clipped off a cutting a few years ago and now have it doing well in the garden.

Title: Re: Rock Plant
Post by: KatG on December 03, 2016, 07:42:42 PM

Thanks Fleur. I managed to extract a small rooted piece and will see how it goes. Is yours in a pot or in the ground?

Title: Re: Rock Plant
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on December 06, 2016, 01:15:04 PM

In the ground with a little irrigation in the summer. I've taken photos of it but I can't find one so instead here is one taken by Barbara Diamantides during an MGS trip to the Peloponnese in 2008

Title: Re: Rock Plant ID'd by Fleur Pavlidis as Lithodora zahnii
Post by: Alisdair on December 07, 2016, 08:52:25 AM

It's worth noting that elsewhere on this forum there's quite a long thread about this interesting shrub, which you can see by clicking here (http://www.mgsforum.org/smf/index.php?topic=647.0).

Title: Re: Rock Plant ID'd by Fleur Pavlidis as Lithodora zahnii
Post by: KatG on December 07, 2016, 02:48:15 PM

Thanks Alisdair