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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: gray1720 on May 04, 2020, 08:54:57
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Anyone recognise this? Unfortunately I've wiped out the flower through over-exposure, but it's five slightly overlapping petals a bit like a geranium, in a fetching yellow-cream shade.
Thanks!
Adrian
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No-one? I can't believe everyone is flummoxed!
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Erodium crysanthus, it turns out.
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Glad you found it, very flummoxed here. :wave:
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A heronsbill rather than a cranesbill, then. A nice little alpine rather than the weed I was expecting!
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Yes, I happened to mention it in conversation to my Mum (from whence it probably came many years ago), and she named it. I looked up Erodium and there it was, looking at me.
A nice find - I'm currently collecting rocks for a rockery in a Johnny Cash stylee (One piece at a time), so it'll even have somewhere to go.
Adrian
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At least rocks don't go out of date... so the assembly should be easier!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cW_yHo3PY
Adrian
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Whatever rocks your boat!
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And just to put a spanner in the works, it is probably not true E. chrysanthus as the true species is probably not in cultivation.
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No, but it's close enough for jazz - I can now say "The Erodium" instead of "the thingy"!
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Propagate by taking cuttingsof the new growth at the beginning of the year. Ripe ones are much harder to get to root.