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Help with plant ID

Postby jvelhino » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:05 am

Hi, would anyone know what this plant might be?
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Postby jasalim » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:25 pm

I'm not sure what it is but the flower and bracts are a lovely colour combination :!: :)
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Postby bubba louie » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:59 pm

I've seen it somewhere.
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Postby Mister Wisteria » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:04 pm

I will make a dill of myself and say Bougainvilla, the B store was flogging that colour one out last year.
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Postby bubba louie » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:52 pm

Mister Wisteria wrote:I will make a dill of myself and say Bougainvilla, the B store was flogging that colour one out last year.


Dill Dill Dill. :P
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Postby Comeilotei » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:47 pm

Welcome to the forum Jvelhino! :wink:

Unusual looking flower u've got there, pretty though!

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Postby Pam » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:51 am

It's a Chinese Hat plant - will get you the botanic name.
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Postby Pam » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:56 am

Ok, the pink one is Holmskioldia tettensis.

bubba louie wrote:I've seen it somewhere.


Abwal has posted a couple of pics.
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Postby pomolo » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:21 am

I've got the Holmskioldia sanguinea which is all orange. Eye catching flower but the bush is hard to grow to a nice shape. Inclined to grow scraggly. Worth it for the flowers though.

That pink/purple one is beautiful. I'm on anew mission now to find one.
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Postby bubba louie » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:44 am

Pam wrote:Ok, the pink one is Holmskioldia tettensis.

bubba louie wrote:I've seen it somewhere.


Abwal has posted a couple of pics.


I've seen it in the flesh. Somewhere?
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Postby Pam » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:23 pm

I think I saw them at Bunnings recently?!
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Postby Mister Wisteria » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:32 pm

Pam wrote:I think I saw them at Bunnings recently?!


I saw them at the B store, probably read the wrong label, they couldn't have had the wrong one on it, could they. :?: :lol: I was going to buy one but they only had three and they were all pretty tatty. :(
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Postby jvelhino » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:19 pm

thank you all for your replies (and sense of humour)
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