Ranunculus ID please

[mickeymuc]

I'll slot in a different buttercup for the Ranunculus fans. This leaf belongs to R. acris 'Hedgehog'. I would like a collection of buttercups but not the creeping/runnings species

Hi Mark,

How about Ranunculus languinosus for your collection ? A Buttercup for shade with leaves beautifully patterned in spring....
No runners but it will self-seed if not cut down after flower. Still i like it a lot....

Best regards from Munich !

Michael

[mark smyth]

If it's well behaved I'll say yes to a piece, thanks.

Anyone know where I can get R. delavayi?

A Ranunculus caused a stir yesterday at one of the sales tables at the Dublin AGS show. All the plants people bought it. I'll take a photo later. It comes in to leaf in late winter, flowers in May and dies down. It has tubers. The leaves are covered in silver hairs. Anyone know what it is?

[Diane Clement]

A Ranunculus caused a stir yesterday at one of the sales tables at the Dublin AGS show.

Any pictures from the Dublin Show, Mark?  How did you get on, any red stickers??

[mark smyth]

Diane the hall they use is alawys poor for light. I'll show some but I'm not happy with the quality. I got 6 reds including one for a plant put in againt the big boys. The Farrer went to an 11 year old Sax

[Diane Clement]

Diane the hall they use is alawys poor for light. I'll show some but I'm not happy with the quality. I got 6 reds including one for a plant put in againt the big boys. The Farrer went to an 11 year old Sax

Well done for the firsts, we look forward to seeing the pictures, poor light or not!

[mark smyth]

Here's the Ranunculus

[Lesley Cox]

Could perhaps be Anemone fulgens in which case the flowers will be red. It looks to me more like a tuberous anemone than a ranunculus but maybe not. Was there no plant with a label?

[mark smyth]

The label, and talking to the seller, says yellow flowers in April/May, dies down after flower, leaves come up in winter, stands c15cm, tubers like R.ficaria. I took mine out of the pot today. No sign of tubers but quite thick roots

[mark smyth]

This came from the nursery manager this morning re the Ranunculus

"I'm sorry, I have no photographs or anything else of the Ranunculus. I even don't know the origin, where the plant came from. When we moved the nursery 2 years ago, I found a pot with something in it (not really a bulb, something between Ranunculus ficaria and Anemonella, or some small Thalictrum), that I potted on and to my surprise this very beautiful Ranunculus emerged in spring. I'm sure, it will flower in a few weeks. Last year I had only very few plants, but the most of them flowered. I wish you good luck in growing the Ranunculus and specially in finding out it's name. Please let me know, when you found a name for this fellow."

[t00lie]

Mark

Your Ranunculus sps looks like a Potentilla sps to me.

P. hypartica maybe .Not sure.

Cheers Dave.

[mark smyth]

I said Potentilla to the nursery guy on Saturday but he said no

[t00lie]

Rightio Mark

Would you please pick a leaf and give us a look at its reverse side.Ta.

Cheers Dave.

[mark smyth]

Here's a link to a flower of P. hypartica http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsingh/501490332/

[mark smyth]

As requested a few more photos of the 'Ranunculus'

[Paul T]

Out on a limb here.... could it be a Pulsatilla of some sort?  The leaves remind me of that, although I have limited experience of how widely variable the leaves of this genus are as they are very rare here.  Only going from pictures I have seen, it reminds me of them?  There's probably all sorts of diagnostic features that if I had more expertise would stand out like the proverbial sore thumb to indicate it isn't.