Help Me Identify this Plant...
January 24, 2006 7:59 PM
Plant Identification filter. Can anyone give me a name for the plant pictured here and here?
If it helps in the ID, the pictures were shot in the greenhouse of the Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
If it helps in the ID, the pictures were shot in the greenhouse of the Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
Don't public greenhouses usually label their exhibits?
If you're far away from the botanical garden now, querying them by email might be the best way to find out.
posted by zadcat at 9:42 PM on January 24, 2006
If you're far away from the botanical garden now, querying them by email might be the best way to find out.
posted by zadcat at 9:42 PM on January 24, 2006
If you can get pictures of the leaves, stems and body of the plant this would be a lot easier, as is it may be impossible to identify it with the pictures you've got.
To me it looks like a fuchsia, upside down.
posted by Matt Oneiros at 10:21 PM on January 24, 2006
To me it looks like a fuchsia, upside down.
posted by Matt Oneiros at 10:21 PM on January 24, 2006
That's all I've got in terms of pictures, sorry. I did indeed send them an email, but I've no way of knowing how good they are about replying.
posted by Jase at 4:08 AM on January 25, 2006
posted by Jase at 4:08 AM on January 25, 2006
Heh - you've done something similar to me; I saw a flower, thought "What's that?" and took a photo... with a nice artistic depth of field, and quite close up - missing out the shape of the plant, or the leaves...
Makes for a nice photo, but not much use for identification purposes.
Perhaps try some of the Flickr flower groups, or maybe "ID please"?
posted by Chunder at 4:22 AM on January 25, 2006
Makes for a nice photo, but not much use for identification purposes.
Perhaps try some of the Flickr flower groups, or maybe "ID please"?
posted by Chunder at 4:22 AM on January 25, 2006
One thing that does spring to mind, that greenhouse at Selby Gardens is where they display a lot of Bromeliads and Epiphytes. I don't know if that helps narrow anything down.
posted by Jase at 4:34 AM on January 25, 2006
posted by Jase at 4:34 AM on January 25, 2006
I think it's a Quince flower that has had all of the petals drop off. The stamen in your photos are a bit dried out, the way they would be at the point where the petals fall off of a flower.
posted by iconomy at 6:53 AM on January 25, 2006
posted by iconomy at 6:53 AM on January 25, 2006
Garden Web came up with what looks like a winner. Haemanthus Abiflos. Thanks!
posted by Jase at 10:17 AM on January 25, 2006
posted by Jase at 10:17 AM on January 25, 2006
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