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Shrub ID on vaguest description

Posted by John Baker on July 27, 2014 at 8:03pm

Anybody any clues as to possible identitification of this shrub which was described to me with little information...they didn't think to take a photo.

Overall 2m high and spread unobservable.
In flower at the moment and was coral coloured.
Light green leaf, which drew attention of observer to the plant, was shaped like a daisy flower, 3 evenly sized upper lobes smaller than 3 evenly sized lower lobes. Overall size of each leaf in the region of 50mm/2in.
Was spotted in Mount Stewart Gardens, (NT in NI)

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  • Phil Seabrook July 27, 2014 at 8:49pm
    Hibiscus?
  • Paul McNulty July 27, 2014 at 10:14pm

    I think we should all chip in and send them back to the NT garden, with a £2 disposable camera!

    Surely there must be a contact for the gardens they could ask, and probably get through to the head gardener with a bit of begging?

  • Daniel Goree July 27, 2014 at 10:23pm

    Good idea

  • John Baker July 27, 2014 at 10:35pm
    They had cameras...just didn't think.
    They have just sent me a pic of shrivelled leaf which is surprisingly small for the alleged size of the shrub or tree
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  • John Baker July 28, 2014 at 1:19am

    Anyone for Tropaeolum speciosum ? I will send the details to my interrogator. I would have expected the flower to draw more comment, though.

  • John Baker July 28, 2014 at 6:44pm
    "Yes I think you may be right! Didnt think it was a climber 'cos of where it was."
  • Alex Brenton July 28, 2014 at 9:45pm
    Escalonia family? Always amazed how unobservant customers are. Always seem to say it had a daisy flower. Just had a customer telling me about this amazing 'GRASS' they had seen in a garden. Turned out it was a Gaura.
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