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Maggi Young

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Pulsatilla 2018
« on: April 16, 2018, 10:57:18 AM »
As the pulsatilla  season  begins (  as we have seen in the UK from the appearance of some fine forms on the show benches, for instance, or posts like this....
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16256.msg391446#msg391446 ) a question  comes  from across the Atlantic about the  ID of this plant .....

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Looks to me like a semi-double P. halleri slavica - what do others think?
« Last Edit: April 16, 2018, 11:01:11 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2018, 02:55:59 PM »
Hi Maggi,
            I find pulsatilla very confusing and difficult to identify. I have a growing collection of various colours and forms which are probably mostly hybrids. The ones that I thought of when I saw the photo first was perhaps a semi double P. campanella? or maybe a Pulsatilla x papageno hybrid?

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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2018, 03:55:07 PM »
Aha!  Semi double P. campanella is what Ian said!
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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2018, 02:47:47 PM »
Today we visited a site a Swedish friend recommended, where Pulsatilla vulgaris grows on a slope down to the Baltic Sea.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2018, 02:52:44 PM »
Two other views.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2018, 02:54:01 PM »

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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2018, 02:55:22 PM »
There was some range of colour, too.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2018, 02:58:31 PM »
Iīve never seen them coloured like this - the outer half of the flower was blue. I thought this might be due to some kind of disturbance, but there were similar plants on an inland site, too.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2018, 03:00:22 PM »
A light blue variant of the same pattern - unfortunately, the wind wasnīt helpful.

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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2018, 05:00:56 PM »
Variation of form, as well.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2018, 05:05:00 PM »
Obviously, those plants growing below the level the water occasionally reached donīt suffer.


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Re: Pulsatilla 2018
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2018, 08:25:52 PM »
How beautiful.  Thank you for showing these Mariette.
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