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mark smyth

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Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« on: June 28, 2010, 12:15:39 AM »
This small plant would look great in a trough but what is it? It was growing close to the sea in short grass.
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 01:03:14 AM »
Is it the little pink thing that's related to Gentiana? I can't remember the name. Something beginning with C? Something scilloides??? Saw it on Lindisfarne years ago and it turns up in my garden occasionally.
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2010, 02:46:26 AM »
Looks like a Centaurium species to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurium
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 04:20:10 AM »
I agree: it is Centaurium erythraea, I think: a lovely native in the meadows, here.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2010, 08:34:24 AM by zephirine »
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 04:26:32 AM »
Yeah, that's the one I mean. Probably erythraea, rather than scilloides. :) Or are they synonyms?
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2010, 08:40:50 AM »
I don't think they are synonyms, Lesley.. Erythraea is the only one I personnally met, so I wouldn't be 100% sure. Maybe the foliage is different, or the size? The flowers look pretty much similar...
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2010, 09:31:40 AM »
I'd go with C. scilloides because of the size.........I thought C. erythraea was always  taller  ???
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Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2010, 10:23:35 AM »
Thanks everyone. It's actually in my book but only shows C. erythraea.
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