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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 09:50:51 AM

Title: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 09:50:51 AM

This plant pops up now and again but I'm blessed if I can remember what it is called. ???

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: Gerdk on April 30, 2009, 11:50:47 AM

Perhaps a variegated form of Montia (Claytonia) perfoliata ? I am not totally sure.

Gerd

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 02:31:00 PM

Thanks Gerd, I reckon you are right, but I can't find any record of a variegated form. ???
Johnny

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: Maggi Young on April 30, 2009, 03:21:56 PM

Not been decorating recently, have you, Johnny?  ::)

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 03:45:01 PM

Who Me!!!!!!! :o

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: Maggi Young on April 30, 2009, 03:54:02 PM

Quote from: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 03:45:01 PM

Who Me!!!!!!! :o

Well, no, now that you mention it,  I may have been thinking about the regular decorating habits of David Nicholson!! I think a lot of his plants have speckles, or even smart wallpaper.... ::) ;D

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: David Nicholson on April 30, 2009, 04:42:45 PM

......... irregular, and getting more so ;D

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 30, 2009, 09:02:07 PM

Please define irregular........ ::)

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: David Nicholson on April 30, 2009, 09:09:00 PM

Well, it starts off with- "I'll do it next week when I've more time" or- "The weather forecast is good for next week, why don't you bring your Mum down for a few days" or- "It's far too nice (or wet, hot, cold etc) to start decorating today"

So John, in my mind 'prevarication' and 'irregular' are inter-changeable mind sets ;D

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: Paul T on May 01, 2009, 01:54:00 AM

What a cool plant!!  :o  Love those variegated leaves, and the fact that the flowers look like they emerge from the middle of one of those leaves.  Very, very unusual!!  Cool!  8)

Title: Re: Had it on and off for years, but what is it?
Post by: Stephenb on May 02, 2009, 11:34:39 AM

Never heard of a variegated form of Miner's Lettuce either...an excellent early spring salad plant, not uncommonly grown in the UK; it's just emerging here (once you have it, it comes back year after year)....