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Hans J

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who can help ?
« on: June 21, 2012, 07:41:49 AM »
I need some help for a ID ..please

Before some days I have receive a plant as gift from a nursery ..without a name ???
( I believe it is a annual )

This plant looks not very special -on day the flowers hanging down ....but on the evening the flowers are open and it has a fantastic fragrance  :o
The plant is around 40 -45 cm high and the flowers have a diameter of 3 cm

Here are some pics - I'm shure anybody will know this plant

Thank you in advance
Hans
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Re: who can help ?
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2012, 07:49:09 AM »
A Matthiola I think, Hans.... a "night-scented Stock"
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2012, 11:21:31 AM »
Maggi - thank you for your quick answer !

As always ...you are right !

now I need the species or cultivar ....maybe incana ...maybe bicornis ?

It seems in Scotland are this plants more common - I have never seen it before

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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2012, 11:56:50 AM »
I would think that is Mattiola  bicornis

I don't know if these plants are grown a much in these days as they used to be. A victim of changing fashion in the plant world, I fear.
When I was little girl all my family would grow these annuals near the house to enjoy the wonderful fragrance in the evenings.
Only occasionally nowadays do I catch the fragrance on the air in the evenings when I am out walking the dogs. Of course, I could grow them myself.... there is often a clue to a problem.... then I could have the fragrance by my own door ! They are funny flowers, as you have spotted, the blooms are drooping during the day looking wilted, then they pick up in the evening, open wide and the scent drifts around deliciously.
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2012, 03:36:20 PM »
I have a perennial one in the Alpine House. Do not know the name or where it came from, probably as a piece in a plant. Will have to see if I can find a picture, but it does not flower as prolifically as the annual one.
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2012, 03:51:12 PM »
Maggi ,

I think now it is M.bicornis ...it has fruits like horns ( the german name for this plant is Gemshorn )...now I hope that it is self fertil and I can collect some seeds .

Yes - we are a bit dissapointet as we got this plant as gift ...but on the evening when the flowers was open and the fragrance came we are more than satisfied

Again many thanks
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