Unknown yellow flowering plant

[WimB]

This plant is growing in the garden of a friend and nobody seems to know what it is. Anyone here have an idea?

[arisaema]

A peloric Linaria vulgaris

[Maggi Young]

A peloric Linaria vulgaris

Spot on, Bjørnar  !
Though at first glance my brain saw your answer as a pelagic Linaria, so that was a moment's puzzle! Poor sole, I thought, he's lost the plot! 

[WimB]

A peloric Linaria vulgaris

Thanks for the identification Bjørnar,

I had never heard about "peloria" before. Every day something new to learn.

[mark smyth]

pe·lo·ri·a
noun
Unusual regularity in the form of a flower that is normally irregular.

[Maggi Young]

Found this reference  going right back to Linnaeus.....which happens to be about this very plant.....

http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp36336815147048/




also the term has been used a couple of times in the Forum in dicussion of fasciation and the like.

[Carlo]

Mark's definition (Unusual regularity in the form of a flower that is normally irregular.) could be a bit confusing. A peloric flower is one in which a flower that is normally zygomorphic, or bilaterally symmetrical, develops as an actinomorphic flower, or one that is radially symmetrical. In other words, a flower that is symmetrical when divided on ONE plane, becomes one that is divisible on many.

Furthermore, I would suggest that a flower that is bilaterally symmetric is very regular (it is, afterall, a mirror image).

[Lesley Cox]

Something distinctly fishy about your first answer there Maggi.

[Maggi Young]

Something distinctly fishy about your first answer there Maggi.

Indeed, Lesley... then the scales fell from my eyes.

[Lvandelft]

Some years ago it was offered here and possibly in UK too, as Linaria vulgaris 'Peloria'

[WimB]

Thanks for your answers