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Post by victoria on Jan 22, 2010 19:40:42 GMT
Now this shrub I found in Estramadura region just below Lisbon a week ago when we went up to the castles. I feel I should know it but ... It looks like a Primrose but is a small shrub ...   And this succulent is here at one of our favourite restaurants and I have never seen one bloom before. It too is shrubby and can be a meter tall. I'd like to know what it is as a friend recently gave me a cutting and she doesn't know what it is ... Sorry, the flowers are bright yellow but I only had my mobile camera with me.  |
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Post by pete on Jan 22, 2010 19:53:48 GMT
The succulent looks like an aeonium of some kind.
The shrubby plant I havn't a clue I'm afraid.
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Post by victoria on Jan 23, 2010 12:13:20 GMT
Yes, Pete, I think the succulent is an Aeonium arboreum, thank you. I have just never seen one in flower before.
I am thinking the other is a Wild Brassica fruiticulosa. My book says "Clump-forming hairy perennial. Leaves spoon-shaped or oblong, margins with rounded lobes. Flowers yellow and 8-12mm across; appears in small clusters, often drooping. April-July. Rocky ground. Iberia to N Greece; absent from most islands." It could be blooming early here due to the exceptionally wet weather.
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Post by kedigato on Jan 23, 2010 21:40:37 GMT
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Post by kedigato on Jan 27, 2010 16:34:14 GMT
Just found the other plant needing ID-ing, Sis. It is Henbane.
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Post by victoria on Jan 27, 2010 18:06:50 GMT
Hmmmmm, Sis. I looked it up in 'our' book, page 286, and the height of the plant is too tall and the flowers are wrong ... especially with those dark red viens. I'm still leaning to the Brassica I mentioned above, page 240, plus www.iewf.org/weedid/Brassica_fruticulosa.htm. |
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Post by pete on Jan 27, 2010 18:59:43 GMT
For what its worth it dont look brassica like to me.
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Post by victoria on Jan 27, 2010 19:49:58 GMT
Oh, my link doesn't work .... it does look like this one I mentioned, Pete, it's a wild Brassica .... bit like me ....  |
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Post by kedigato on Feb 7, 2010 10:47:14 GMT
Sis, this is a half-way close-up of the plant you wanted ID'd on page 1 of this thread. The first one I showed was seen in Malta, this one was in the hotel ground, right next to the beach, in Ayia Napa, Cyprus in 2006.  |
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Post by victoria on Feb 7, 2010 11:12:12 GMT
Goodness me ... that IS impressive, Sis. Guess we're not warm enough even to get them that size!
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Post by kedigato on Feb 7, 2010 12:43:13 GMT
I don't know about that, as it was cool while we were there in January, you can see that Peter has his jacket on.
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