Can someone ID this viola please.

[maggiepie]

This is the first year these have flowered.
I obtained quite a few different viola seeds from seed exchanges but all the tags have gone

Any help appreciated.

[daveyp1970]

may be viola sororia but the white form

[Lesley Cox]

I don't know Helen but it's very nice. I like that toothed foliage and it's very neat and compact. Seed for the eschanges maybe.

I have been offered a rare Primula in exchange for one of your 3 Geranium seedlings. Will accept as I suspect the Geranium is much easier than the Primula and two should give me seed if planted together. Oddly, the offer came from the source of the lovely plant shown in the Geranium thread - was is one of the Norwegians or a Dane who posted it? - and she said she'd like to have it again so presumably it had been lost there too. Your sharing of your seed has been a good thing for all.

[David Nicholson]

Helen, Gerd Knoche (GerdK) may be able to help you with this one. Perhaps he hasn't seen your post but you could PM him.

[Maggi Young]

Helen, Gerd Knoche (GerdK) may be able to help you with this one. Perhaps he hasn't seen your post but you could PM him.

I pm'd Gerd last night, David.... two minds with the same thought!

[Gerdk]

I pm'd Gerd last night, David.... two minds with the same thought!

Helen, Gerd Knoche (GerdK) may be able to help you with this one. Perhaps he hasn't seen your post but you could PM him.

Sorry, I saw the pic last night - but unfortunately I have no idea. Perhaps another pic with full developed leaves
and a list with possible candidades (seeds sown/plants received) would help.

Gerd

[maggiepie]

Thanks everyone, sorry I can't be more helpful with possibilities but the names of the seeds are long gone, both from tags and my memory.

Unfortunately, the last few nights have been down to -3C with strong winds.
The plants are looking worse for wear today.

The leaves appear to upright and haven't opened more during the past few days.

Here's a couple more pics of some plants.

[maggiepie]

I don't know Helen but it's very nice. I like that toothed foliage and it's very neat and compact. Seed for the eschanges maybe.

I have been offered a rare Primula in exchange for one of your 3 Geranium seedlings. Will accept as I suspect the Geranium is much easier than the Primula and two should give me seed if planted together. Oddly, the offer came from the source of the lovely plant shown in the Geranium thread - was is one of the Norwegians or a Dane who posted it? - and she said she'd like to have it again so presumably it had been lost there too. Your sharing of your seed has been a good thing for all.

Lesley, that's wonderful that you can trade a geranium for another rare and dare I say coveted plant
Just think, if someone hadn't been kind enough to share some seeds with me, 3 people would still be without a G. farreri.
The more that have one the more easily the seeds should become available to all who want one.
Am surprised there aren't more around as the seed seems to germinate easily and quickly.

[Gerdk]

Sorry, I don't have the courage to offer a name. It seems to me the plant has a ' Chinese/Japanese look ' - i.e.
it belongs to section Adnatae, as V. japonica for instance - but this is only guesswork.

Gerd
 

[maggiepie]

Thanks Gerd,

I don't suppose it matters much anyway. I was very surprised to see these little plants suddenly appear.
I did wonder if they might be V. fimbriata but those are blue.

http://crdp.ac-besancon.fr/flore/Violaceae/especes/viola_hirta_fimbriata.htm

Leaves look very similar and I did have seeds of V. fimbriata, I think I might have got those from Kristl but can't remember for sure.

[Pauli]

Hello,

I also grow a Viola from AGS seed exchange. I ordered it as occidentalis but I do not think it is the real thing. It overwinters as a rhizome (at least 0,5 cm thick) and usually flowers second half of April here!
Any suggestions?

[Gerdk]

Seems easier to identify than the proceding species from Helen.
If the rhizomes are thick and elongated and more or less prostrate it will be Viola sororia - according the
colour of the flowers the white form albiflora.

Gerd

[Pauli]

Here I have a Chinese Viola for identification. Can somebody help with a name?