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05-07-2006, 03:31 PM
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| | | Car Park Plant.
I keep seeing this sweet looking plant in a car park i use near to a heath. The car park has a lot of loose gravel and it seems to thrive there. A pleasant change to see this delicate pink , instead of white and yellows. Stands about 12cms .
Can someone please let me know what it is.
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05-07-2006, 03:48 PM
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
One of the Centauries - probably Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) though I'm not completely certain
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05-07-2006, 03:48 PM
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
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Originally Posted by Mully I keep seeing this sweet looking plant in a car park i use near to a heath. The car park has a lot of loose gravel and it seems to thrive there. A pleasant change to see this delicate pink , instead of white and yellows. Stands about 12cms .
Can someone please let me know what it is.
Thanks in advance. |
Possibly Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)? I'm sure one of the experts will come and tell me where I've gone wrong ....  |
05-07-2006, 03:51 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
Looks very much like Common Centaury - Centaurium erythaea
No expert though but I recognised it as I took a photo of one myself and it does look like it   |
05-07-2006, 03:56 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
Well, there's three of us wrong .... oops, I'm mean right!!!
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05-07-2006, 04:03 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Dawlish, Devonshire
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
I can't see you being wrong, thanks for your help. Is it ' common' by nature as in its name? Maybe it's just me and for once in my life I am going around with my eyes open and starting to notice these things!! |
05-07-2006, 04:35 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
I agree with everyone above - Common Centaury |
05-07-2006, 10:48 PM
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
Yep, and what a beautiful flower it is too. Managed to find a white variety of it in Liss Forest last weekend. Not as nice as the pink one though.
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06-07-2006, 06:48 AM
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| | | Re: Car Park Plant.
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Originally Posted by Mully I can't see you being wrong, thanks for your help. Is it ' common' by nature as in its name? Maybe it's just me and for once in my life I am going around with my eyes open and starting to notice these things!! |
Hi Mully - no, I don't consider it to be 'common', in fact I took a pic of one for the first time recently, and I had no idea what it was either! Nice little flower, though .... | | |
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