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Old 04-09-2009, 10:02 PM
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Re: A 2009 plant-hunter's diary

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Originally Posted by Jonners View Post
The flower looks like some kind of Lavatera, but I'm no expert.
It's certainly a Lavatera - the question is, which one?

I'm pretty sure it's Lavatera thuringiaca, a European species and one of the parents of the common Garden Tree-mallow L. x clementii. Presumably it was a soil impurity.
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