Happy 35000th thread!
Well done crew. How about you tell us about one or two of your favorite rare plants... Something that you think will teach us all a new name.
Mine will be Osa pulchra. A rare rubiaceae from Costa Rica. Apparently only 40 plants in the wild. Possibly a human made hybrid several thousand years ago. Picture from this fantastic Flickr of someone I used to follow: https://m.flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/4525044340/in/set-72157623848812220/
... And I just had a stroll about my gardens and decided that the least common thing in bloom that I have presently is my Erica chionophila. Grown from seed from South Africa. A dwarf heather from the drakensbergs. Sadly it's not the happiest thing here, but you can tell that it's happy enough to put on quite a show. There are several hundred Erica native to ZA, many of which are zone 9 and a few of which are zone 8. The number of pictures true to this species on te Internet one could probably count on both hands, if not just one.
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10 years ago
10 years agoThat is A LOT of questions and a lot of answers!
Favorite rare.....tough. Like many here, I truly love plants! But to pick something....there are many plants that are locally rare. I live in Western NY State. Pretty much all of this part of the state was put to the plough in the last 200 years. Our forests are second growth. And more of those and other green space are being converted to housing every day. I love the woodland plants native to my region but many of them are becoming rarer and rarer to see so I will share some native to my region from one beautiful spring, woodland hike. (FYI - This is a 2nd growth forest. Old fence lines are still visible throughout.)
Wild Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana
Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum
Solomon's Seal, Polygonatum sp. - I never took the time to figure out which. This is a small plant, the leafy part is about a foot long.
Trillium grandiflorum
Early saxifrage, Micranthes virginiensis
Pennsylvania sedge, Carex pensylvanica
The early leaves of white lettuce, Prenanthes alba
Cranesbill geranium, Geranium macrorrhizum
Blue cohosh, I do believe this is Northern Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum giganteum) as opposed to C. thalictroides. We have both in the area.
Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum
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Seems to be a limit as to the number of images. Here are the rest.
Early Meadow Rue, Thalictrum dioicum
Doll's eyes, Actaea pachypoda
Toothwort, Cardamine diphylla
Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia
Downy yellow violet, Viola pubescens
Canada mayflower, Maianthemum canadense & wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
Marsh marigold, Caltha palustris
10 years ago
10 years ago- 10 years ago
I don't know if it's my favorite in the garden, but surely one of the more interesting. At certain times of the day you can even videotape it:
Angelica gigas
10 years agoPetasites frigidus var. palmatus which grows wild in the woods behind our house. Not sure it'll be too new to you guys though since it was IDed here! But it isn't common around here even though it's native, and the giant leaves are quite spectacular.
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