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mark smyth

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looks like an Aster but isnt
« on: July 30, 2011, 06:36:05 PM »
Last year I bought a blue flowered perennial that looks like an Aster but isn't. The leaves are hairy. The label has gone. It's just started flowering. What is it?
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2011, 08:27:30 PM »
Felicia??
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2011, 08:42:47 PM »
No David. It's about 1m / 3 feet high
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2011, 08:55:23 PM »
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2011, 09:02:27 PM »
Erigeron speciosus Mark?
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2011, 10:15:13 PM »
No Davey.

David from memory Felicias have thick smooth leaves

I've emailed the nursery
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2011, 11:23:21 PM »
It's not Erigeron speciosus, which looks like this (different leaves, particularly):
307070-0

Why is it not an aster?
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2011, 11:26:04 PM »
Looks like an Aster to me. ???
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2011, 12:37:12 AM »
Maybe the nursery had a wrong label
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 10:47:36 AM »
Quote from: mark smyth on July 30, 2011, 10:15:13 PM


David from memory Felicias have thick smooth leaves



From the KEW page link David showed :
"Felicia amelloides is a densely branched herbaceous perennial, which grows up to 1 m high. The stems are green to dark red and the leaves are rough, hairy and borne opposite each other on the stem. The leaves are dark green above and light green below. Because of a covering of short stiff hairs, stems and leaves can feel like fine sandpaper to the touch.

The compound flower head (capitulum) is bright yellow in the centre (the bisexual disc florets) with a ring of sky-blue female ray florets around the outside. The particularly striking flower heads are about 3 cm in diameter and are held well above the leaves on leafless stalks, which are up to 18 cm long. Unlike many other members of the daisy family, the flowerheads of F. amelloides do not close at night.

The cypselas (fruits) are dark brown with tiny hairs. Each fruit is shed with its pappus which, acting like a tiny parachute, helps to disperse them."
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2011, 12:31:56 PM »
Just compared it to Aster x frikartii 'Monch' and it appears identical.
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2011, 02:12:45 PM »
Thanks everyone

Does anyone grow the 'climbing' pink flowered Felicia? Mine died last winter
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2011, 04:22:57 PM »
climbing Felicia

I cant find my photos showing it 'climbing' behind a trellis. It's habit would be the same as winter Jasmine - tie in to a frame and the stems tumble out
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2011, 06:58:09 PM »
So, what have we settled on for Mark's "non-Aster"??
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David Nicholson
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Re: looks like an Aster but isnt
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2011, 08:26:15 PM »
I'm going to the nursery tomorrow
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