Identify this...please

[Palustris]

Can anyone name the plant from which this flower came? Genus will do.

Thank you. Eric.

[Doris_Pinks]

Is it a shrub Hugh? Do you have any piccies of the foliage? potentilla comes to mind, or geranium, cranesbill type I think they are called! Hope this helps, foliage would be a huge advantage! DP

[Palustris]

No, sorry, what you see is what you get. Not even a scale to help with size.

[MagpieDi]

Hi Eric
Cosmos....perhaps.......I have pale  pink and deep pink ones still in flower at the moment, but it's an annual, and it's cold, dark, windy and damp at the mo'.... plus Roland might be sneaking around!!!   ......otherwise I'd go out and take a closer look!!!!    

[teresa]

You know I thought it might be a single Gardenia?
Teresa

[Palustris]

No, dont grow either Cosmos or Gardenia, but thanks for trying. It is in an album of Clematis, but those long filaments make me doubt it. And where on earth did I photo it with a black background? I am stuck.

[Doris_Pinks]

I have a small white Clemmy on tough almost oak shaped leaves tnat is an evergreen.desperately trying to remember it's name...............think it is avalanche,,,,,,might be worth looking up!

[Doris_Pinks]

nope, this is avalanche, not the same as yours! but a great Clematis!!

[MagpieDi]

Hi DP and Eric
Another white evergreen is "Armandii", tried it ,but didn't survive the severe winter up here!

DP .that's a beauty!! but bet it wouldn't take kindly to our winters!

[Doris_Pinks]

Good point Diane! Had forgotten about good old armandii! Love mine, if only I could get my avalanche to bloom as well as this lovely! (Have you tried mulching it and covering it for the winter? Well here is armandii, don't think it is this either, mind you looks closer!

DP

[MagpieDi]

How the hell do you do that so instantly DP???

Could be a late night!!!!  

Is there a pure white cirrhosa in your book??

Does it have to be evergreen? think it''s an old photo!!

Or possibly a single-flowered camellia ?

[Mimi]

Hope I'm not being a bit dense but could it be a hibiscus.  Just thinking of the long stamen.  Could be! :-/

[teresa]

Hi Eric,
I to have taken flowers with black backgrounds, taken late in the evening with the flash going off gives this effect.
do you have a date when you took the photo?
I know some flowers with double and semidouble flowers will throw a single flower.

Teresa

[MagpieDi]

Hi Eric

How about a white form of evening primrose ( oenothera) ?
Would explain the dark background !!!
Or something similar whose flowers open up in the evening!!  
Otherwise, why take the photo in the dark? or were you after a good contrast?

P.S. I've only grown the yellow and a pink , but I bet there's a white form!! ...." oenothera californica "......
visited any deserts lately Eric???

[campanula]

I thought possibly cranesbill but white ones almost always seem to have more veining. Could it be a shrub - philadelphus, eucryphia? Without seeing the back of the flower, mirabilis looks possible, specially if taken when dark. Certainly, the stamens look a bit evening primrose-like but white? Lewisia- nah, not enough petals. racking my brains tho' as I am sure I know this! Fairly sure it is not a clemmie either, the stamens are usually a giveaway there. Abutilon vitifolia album?? Mallow? Hellebore? nope, guessing wildly now.

[Doris_Pinks]

Diane I was searching in Google! Then the other half wanted to go to bed and as the computer is in our room had to go offline................. will do a bit more searching later on if I have time! DP

[MagpieDi]

Thanks for the tip DP.
I have a similar problem....only it's my teenage son who throws me out of his bedroom at midnight!!!    

[Doris_Pinks]

Trouble is I am one of those peeps that could sit on here all night if I am not tired! I have noticed from the posting times that we have quite a few night owls here!

[campanula]

yep, me too with the teenage son who owns the PC. Bearing in mind that I have to squash in amongst the festering crisp packets, concrete socks, 3 week old dinner remains, overflowing ashtrays, mountains of D&D stuff and shapeless mounds of bedding which could contain 3 pals for all I know - I amazed I can stay online for so long.

[Palustris]

Well done Diane, Oenother caespitosa ssp. caespitosa it is. Thank you very much. I even now remember why I took the photo in the first place. It was to take it to the Nursery and ask why it was white when the label says .Pink. Not really complaining though it is a beautiful flower. Thank-you once again. (Page 71 Vol 2 Perennials Phillips and Rix)