Orchid: FOTD Feb 21, 2020
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Chinese Hat Plant, FOTD July 19, 2019
Click on flowers to enlarge.
Bob from the Love Will Bring Us Together blog identified this plant for me. Here is his information:
Holmskioldia Sanguinea Retz commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or Mandarin’s hat!. It’s a member of the Mint family ( Lamiaceae ) and is the only species in the genus Holmskioldia!
http://thedreamweaverwrites.blogspot.com/2014/10/kharam-leishok-holmskioldia-sanguinea.html
See Bob’s blog HERE and if you have a plant you can’t identify, he has a section of his blog to report it in and he’s a super plant sleuth. I’ve never found one he couldn’t identify.
False Dragonhead Flower, June 18, 2019
This is the request I sent out into the universe yesterday:
I should know what this is but can’t remember. If someone refreshes my memory, I’ll post the name.
And although Pat, Angloswiss, Ghostmmnc, Derrick and Slmret came to my aid (Thanks, all,) Bob at Love Will Bring Us Together seems to be the most thorough and persuasive in his identification, agreeing with Pat, Angloswiss and Slmret, and Derrick agrees with him. Here is his solution to the flower mystery:
It’s definitely a member of the Lamiales Order of plants that includes all 3 you are deciding between, but Pat is right – it’s a member of the genus Physostegia probably P virginiana – False Dragonhead.
Foxgloves belong to genus Digitalis and they generally have their flowers on one ‘side’ of the stem. The flowers seem to have more of a wide open ‘mouth’ than the dragonheads.
The Physostegia flowers are evenly spread about the stem at 4 right angles to one another in cross-section.
What’s more, (I’m so proud,) I seem to have driven Bob to declaring himself the Robin Hood of plant identification. He went on to say:If you wish to avail yourself, i now have my ‘service’ up on my blog: 🙂
So let’s keep him busy and out of trouble. He’s taken care of
all of my identification woes for the past year and so now extends his generous offer out to the blogging world in general. Once again, thanks, Bob.
And, again, thanks to all of you who helped to solve the mystery.
For Cee’s FOTD.
Moss Rose: FOTD Feb 23, 2019
For Cee’s FOTD prompt.
FOTD Jan 21, 2019
Dirty Face: Kalanchoe Single, FOTD Jan 19, 2019
Leaves stained with minerals from waterings, petals specked with dirt from the nearby road, this little beauty still displays a waifish beauty.
Kalanchoe: FOTD, Jan 18, 2019
This little kalanchoe is much-dusted by the road that runs nearby, its leaves stained with sea salt, but the flower nonetheless retains its beauty.
For FOTD
