The 'Name that Plant' Thread

Worztron

Hi.

Can someone name this plant? Sorry for the low quality. I should have taken it with my digital camera instead of the smartphone.

pwurple

Height? Colour?

If it's tallish, it looks to me like miscanthus sinensis.

If it's yellowy rather than white varigation i would say Hakonechloa macra.

Worztron

pwurple wrote: »

Height? Colour?

If it's tallish, it looks to me like miscanthus sinensis.

If it's yellowy rather than white varigation i would say Hakonechloa macra.

About half a meter. Green + off white.

Your second name looks right. It looks like this: http://greenfusestock.photoshelter.com/image/I0000ObgudLAFZXs

catchup

Looks more like phalaris. Very spreading in moist area. Lovely veriagated colouring.

Worztron

Here's a better image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/318139.jpg

shaydy

Anyone know what type of tree this is? They line our street............i'm tempted to put a few along the back wall for privacy

looksee

Really need a closer look at the leaves too, could be a poplar.

lottpaul

Worztron wrote: »

Here's a better image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/318139.jpg

I would second the phalaris suggestion. A nice plant - good for a damp spot but it will spread quickly. In a pot it would be fine as long as you keep it well watered.

Worztron

How about this one?

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/318288.jpg

looksee

Fuchsia

lottpaul

Phygelius?

Worztron

lottpaul wrote: »

Phygelius?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phygelius_capensis

looksee

Ah, I was confused by the apparently common name of Cape Fuchsia, it isn't a fuchsia at all!

Oldtree

shaydy wrote: »

Anyone know what type of tree this is? They line our street............i'm tempted to put a few along the back wall for privacy

I'd go for hornbeam, a leaf pic would aid id.

Worztron

lottpaul wrote: »

I would second the phalaris suggestion. A nice plant - good for a damp spot but it will spread quickly. In a pot it would be fine as long as you keep it well watered.

Would it be the 'Phalaris arundinacea' to be exact? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalaris_arundinacea

mel.b

Hope it's ok to jump in on this thread My next door neighbour has this climber which is coming over my fence. I really like it - can someone tell what it is? Oh and please excuse my filthy hands:o

catchup

Honeysuckle. Smells lovely in the evening.

shaydy

looksee wrote: »

Really need a closer look at the leaves too, could be a poplar.

Oldtree wrote: »

I'd go for hornbeam, a leaf pic would aid id.

Thanks Both, here's a pic of the leafs.............having googled the two I'm thinking hornbeam?

looksee

shaydy wrote: »

Thanks Both, here's a pic of the leafs.............having googled the two I'm thinking hornbeam?

You might want to re-think that pic :-)

Worztron

looksee wrote: »

You might want to re-think that pic :-)

Looking at it was like instant dizziness. :P

Oldtree

Biggest house plant I've ever seen

shaydy

Haha I'll fix that tomorrow

shaydy

shaydy wrote: »

Thanks Both, here's a pic of the leafs.............having googled the two I'm thinking hornbeam?

And the right attachment

pwurple

You know, if anyone has a smart phone, there is a great little app called LeafSnap.

You take a photo of the leaf, and it identifies the tree for you.

Oldtree

Two id books that I have found very useful, and are the best imo, have very good id keys followed by excellent id photos are:

The Eyewitness Handbook of Trees 1992
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1928720.The_Eyewitness_Handbook_of_Trees

Wildflowers of Britain and Northwest Europe (Eyewitness Handbooks) 1995
http://www.abebooks.com/9780751310245/Wildflowers-Britain-Northwest-Europe-Eyewitness-0751310247/plp

(the links are just to show the covers of the books I have.)

Worztron

Hi guys.

Does anyone know the name of this? Thanks.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/319460.jpg

looksee

Japanese anemone - lovely plant, grows like a weed, but a very welcome weed!

Wyldwood

Looks like a Japanese Anemone, also available in white and quite invasive.

snap looksee!

Worztron

Cheers looksee & Wyldwood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_hupehensis

Worztron

Does anyone know this one?

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/319516.jpg

lottpaul

Potentilla, but am not sure which particular one.

Worztron

Anyone know this one (the one with green leaves with yellow on the edges)? I think a darker leafed plant is growing in the middle of it (please name that also). Cheers.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/319561.jpg

Worztron

lottpaul wrote: »

Potentilla, but am not sure which particular one.

Is it Mckay's White from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasiphora_fruticosa?

lottpaul

Worztron wrote: »

Anyone know this one (the one with green leaves with yellow on the edges)? I think a darker leafed plant is growing in the middle of it (please name that also). Cheers.

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At a glance I would say its a form of dogwood? but am not 100% sure. Is the darker leafed plant a branch of the other one that has just reverted to the original colour? Check and see if they are coming from the same stem/rootstock.

Wyldwood

Not sure what the plant is, I thought maybe a variegated weigela but the leaf doesn't look quite right. Does the plant flower?

In any case that's not a darker plant growing up through it, the plant is reverting to the original green it was before the variegation was introduced. You need to cut all the dark green branches out right down to base unless you want the whole plant to revert to the dark green.

rje66

+1 on above 2posts

looksee

I agree the stems look more like dogwood, it think it is a varigated dogwood, though my first thought was also weigela, but the leaves are a bit soft and large looking. As Wyldwood says though, you need to cut those dark bits out completely, even if you have to go under the soil to do it. Otherwise you will just have a dark green shrub.

Worztron

Wyldwood wrote: »

Not sure what the plant is, I thought maybe a variegated weigela but the leaf doesn't look quite right. Does the plant flower?

In any case that's not a darker plant growing up through it, the plant is reverting to the original green it was before the variegation was introduced. You need to cut all the dark green branches out right down to base unless you want the whole plant to revert to the dark green.

I don't recall it flowering. What would cause a plant to go from dark green to a lighter green/yellow and then back to dark green? I don't mind the darker green.

lottpaul

Worztron wrote: »

I don't recall it flowering. What would cause a plant to go from dark green to a lighter green/yellow and then back to dark green? I don't mind the darker green.

Generally the variegated/coloured plants are just "mistakes" from an original plant that people liked and propogated. The natural inclination of the plant is to go back to its natural colour. If you don't tear these darker bits off the whole plant will eventually go back to the darker shade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_%28botany%29

mel.b

Can anyone ID this little bedding plant for me? I got it shortly after Bloom but it didn't have a tag on it so I don't know what it is.

looksee

Looks a bit like a busy lizzy, but I haven't seen one as trailing as that, and the leaves don't look quite right. :-) So possibly its not!

mel.b

looksee wrote: »

Looks a bit like a busy lizzy, but I haven't seen one as trailing as that, and the leaves don't look quite right. :-) So possibly its not!

Is a busy lizzy an impatient? If so, it's not rhat. It's quite small - i have in a smallish terricotta pot three of them planted. I think i recall the lady in the nursery saying its name starting with a 'f' if that's any help. I also don't think its meant to be a trailling flower and thats just happened because of the way the pot is hanging.

Wyldwood

Surfinia?

mel.b

Nope, it's flat, rather than having the shape of a surifina. Googling 'small purple flowers' i wonder could it be a type of phlox? That would fit with the 'f' spund i remember.

looksee

Oh silly woman (me) I think its a Petunia Million Bells (there's one here http://betterhousekeeper.com/2014/05/23/7-beautiful-flowers-to-grow-in-hanging-planters-on-your-porch-or-balcony/ ) I have one in a pot outside the door, but mine is different colours.

No. 7 on that page

mel.b

I don't think it is looksee. It doesn't have the pointy tubular shape that a petunia has where it goes into the stem and the petals are distinct, rather than all in one.

I think a trip back to the nursery this afternoon is in order!

mel.b

The garden centre confirmed it is a new type of bedding Phlox.

Worztron

Hi. Does anyone know the name of the plant in the attached image? Thanks.

bungaro79

planted these in a box at the start of the summer but threw away the packet so don't know what they are! they are attracting some amount of butterflies!

looksee

The shrub is Euonymus and the flowers are Sweet Williams

lottpaul

bungaro79 wrote: »

planted these in a box at the start of the summer but threw away the packet so don't know what they are! they are attracting some amount of butterflies!

Dianthus barbatus -- Sweet William - beautiful scent, old fashioned flower enjoying a bit of a revival.