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08-03-2008, 05:37 PM
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| | | Anyone seen this flower before?
Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can identify this flower? I took the picture in the Julian Alps, Slovenia last year. It looks like a Lilac, but then I can find a type which quite matches. Likewise I wondered about a Pholx...
Any help very much appreciated.
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08-03-2008, 05:51 PM
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Looks something like Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis).
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08-03-2008, 06:53 PM
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I to thought it might be Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis). But the leaves are a bit different its in that family I reckon. regards Jimmer 
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08-03-2008, 07:02 PM
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It would be useful to see the fruits or even more of the foliage, but it does look like Perennial Honesty, Lunaria rediviva, which does grow through Europe + seems uncommon in gardens compared with the familiar L. annua, which frequently naturalises. |
08-03-2008, 07:08 PM
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I know that flower as honesty,mum used to grow it for the silver flat seed pods. |
08-03-2008, 08:16 PM
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Looks like honesty to me as well
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08-03-2008, 09:05 PM
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Because I think I can see the start of the pods protruding from a couple of the flowers and they will be long a thin and not wide and flattened I would go with Dame's Violet rather than Honesty? Also leaves appear to be lanceolate and sharply toothed rather than more rounded and coarsely toothed???
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09-03-2008, 08:04 AM
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Thank you all for your input and answers - and so quickly!
I am leaning towards Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Violet)...
As I am finding to my cost wildflower identification is not easy! I took a few pictures whilst in Slovenia last year and I am trying to get names for them. Does anyone know a good website that allows you to answer questions and narrow it down?
It is so much easier with birds! I may well have to call upon your expertise again at some point...
Many thanks again,
James |
09-03-2008, 08:18 AM
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I would agree with Perennial Honesty (Lunaria redivivia) - the fruits start out narrow (as in your pic) and become wider when they get older. |
09-03-2008, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx  I would agree with Perennial Honesty (Lunaria redivivia) - the fruits start out narrow (as in your pic) and become wider when they get older. | Thanks Tiggrx I was wondering whether it did eventually flatten out - also the colour of the flowers is pale enough for Honesty rather than the 'richer' colour of Dames Violet! I think its time I stopped birding so much and got my botany back on track
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