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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Hilary on May 23, 2019, 09:54:07 PM

Title: yellow flowered climber ID'd by Oron Peri as rose 'Mermaid'
Post by: Hilary on May 23, 2019, 09:54:07 PM

My daughter who lives in Madrid asked me if I could identify this climber .
A colleague of hers

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"was wondering what it was as it attracts a kind of moth that in turn attracts a kind of warbler'

Any ideas anyone?

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Umbrian on May 24, 2019, 06:06:19 AM

Fascinating observations Hilary - I shall be interested to learn what it is.

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: JTh on June 03, 2019, 04:15:32 PM

Could be a white clematis?

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Hilary on June 03, 2019, 05:50:40 PM

I will pass on your information/ guess. The leaves look right by checking our the Internet
Many thanks

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Umbrian on June 04, 2019, 06:16:06 AM

Sorry JH but really don't think it is a Clematis...... come on you other experts.....am fascinated to learn what it might be but can offer no other suggestions.

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Alisdair on June 04, 2019, 09:08:16 AM

... reminded me of rose 'Mermaid' - but don't see any thorns!

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Umbrian on June 05, 2019, 05:58:04 AM

Agree Alisdair, the flower seemed more Rose like than Clematis but difficult to pick out the leaves in the confusions of foliage.

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Umbrian on June 05, 2019, 06:02:35 AM

Going on to Charithea's post re Rosa moschata - the photos, albeit some looking if they are from down under! - seem very similar?????

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Hilary on June 06, 2019, 10:49:44 AM

My daughter went to snap the leaves, branches and thorns of the plant in question, as instructed. She was lucky enough to meet the gardener  who remarked that the climber, a rose,  was horrific to clean. The thorns were visible as some of the leaves had fallen away. However, as a bonus the gardener was able to tell her the name of the rose, Rambling Rector.
I see it has the RHS Award of Garden Merit

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Umbrian on June 07, 2019, 05:11:50 AM

Interesting Hilary but I have always thought Rambling  Rector had clusters of flowers- remember admiring one years ago somewhere being struck by its size and the profusion of flowers.

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Alisdair on June 09, 2019, 07:36:16 AM

Yes, definitely not Rambling Rector. We have one (he certainly rambles like mad!) and as Carole says it has big sprays of little off-white noisette flowers.

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: oron peri on June 22, 2019, 09:54:47 AM

I would say Rosa ' Mermaid", a cultivar bred by William Paul in 1906

Title: Re: yellow flowered climber
Post by: Hilary on June 22, 2019, 10:46:08 AM

Many thanks, I will pass on the information