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Plant Ident!

Posted by Shelley Barnes on December 6, 2012 at 7:44pm in Plants

Hi- if you're like me, i love a good plant ident question from a client- this one tho' has stumped me a bit- i've never seen it before!

It's huge- probably over 2metres tall- (i'm standing underneath it!)- it has a really chunky almost hollow stem and I think it looks really like a dahlia! could it be Dahlia merckii? This plant is in Central Portugal- we are having ground frosts but we are milder than the UK-but  it's still flowering now. Anyone seen it before?

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  • markb December 6, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Its Dahlia Imperialis. It can be grown in the uk but rarely flowers as it needs more sunlight than we can offer. Great foliage plant.

  • Shelley Barnes December 6, 2012 at 8:42pm

    woweee!!! thanks Markb- i guessed at the dahlia bit and the merckii was the first one i found in the book!- should have kept going! i am so pleased- thanks you're a star! :-)

    John sorry- slight panic that i've posted in the wrong place for a minute and i had posted in the machinery bit!

     

  • Shelley Barnes December 6, 2012 at 8:45pm

    so now i just need to do a ninja style operation to nick a bit!!

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