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Plants => Plant ID questions => Topic started by: Palustris on May 04, 2010, 12:34:35 PM
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/May2010/P1050238.jpg)
Palmate, three lobed leaves, mid green and shiny. Flowers about 1cm across and greeny white. Will be a rare one and not Exochorda or Choyisia. Label has gone walkabout!
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Is it a Sambucus, cant say which one though???
Paul.
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Don't think so. Not Heptacodium either, that is slewhere in the garden.
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Palmate, three lobed leaves
I take it that the leaves in the foreground, left, are not of the plant?
If that is correct, do you have a good photo of the palmate leaves?
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All the leaves you can see are from the plant, but a bit twisted round as I was trying to get a clear shot of the flowers.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/May2010/P1050240.jpg)
Leaves, about 3 inches at the longest, but get bigger in time.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/May2010/P1050241.jpg)
Close up of the flower.
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With those photos, making an ID should be easy - for someone familiar with that Genus. Not one I have or know :'(
In the first photo in this topic, the stem (from bottom left of photo) looked very like my Paeonia lutea, but the leaves are a totally different shape.
Looking forward to finding out.
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Found it. Staphylea colchica.
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Ha! I should have known that ::) (tee hee)
Its a rare one, I'm sure.
I was surprised to find that its in the Master Database, due to the fact that Chiltern Seeds do seed for it.
http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/chilternseeds/211/moreinfo/pid/9368720
A strong growing shrub with 3 or 5-foliolate leaves and bearing in late spring conspicuous erect panicles, up to 5 ins. long and wide, of most attractive white flowers, each about 0.75 ins. across, with the strongly reflexed petal-like sepals surrounding the corona-like, erect pure white petals. These are followed by large, inflated capsules, each 4 ins. long. 8-12 ft.
How do you rate it Eric?
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Very nice looking shrub and it has survived last Winter. No scent that I can discern. Took a while to get going and needed cutting back to make it bush out. Not tried propagation.........yet. Would not say that it was spectacular like Exochorda The Bride, but worth a place.
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Thanks for that Eric. Theres no review to comapre to one by someone who has actually grown the plant - and its independent and unbiased.