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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:25pm
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Gax

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Hi Folks, hope everyone is keeping well in these difficult times, i have this plant but have absolutely no idea what it is, could someone enlighten me and tell me what to expect when that bud opens?

Stay strong stay safe

Regards

Gax

PeterC

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:34pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:34pm

Looks like a bird of paradise plant.

PhilTox

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:30pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:30pm

Leaves and flower bud are all wrong for  the common varieties of strelitzia (bird of paradise), possibly a clivia. Lovely looking plant, hoping to put a bank of these in ourselves once allowed out. 


Gax

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:36pm

Gax

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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:36pm

PhilTox wrote on Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:30pm:

Leaves and flower bud are all wrong for  the common varieties of strelitzia (bird of paradise), possibly a clivia. Lovely looking plant, hoping to put a bank of these in ourselves once allowed out. 


Thank you PhilTox, that definitely looks like it, looking forward to that bud opening 

Gax 

PhilTox

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:46pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:46pm

Gax wrote on Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:36pm:

Thank you PhilTox, that definitely looks like it, looking forward to that bud opening 

Gax 

De Nada. 

Another one I want to try is a Gloriosa, trip to Bolnuevo garden centre is going to be expensive :-)

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Gax

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:53pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:53pm

Wow, that Gloriosa looks amazing.

Gax

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:18pm

Gax

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:18pm

Latest development 

Fraserwill

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:28pm

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:28pm

Their is an app you can download - think it’s called plantscan or something like that - you just take a photo of the plant or tree and it will tell you what species it is. Try googling to get exact name of app. looks a lovely plant though. 

PhilTox

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:50pm

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:50pm

Gax wrote on Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:18pm:

Latest development 

Ok, sorry, not a clivia then. 

It is an amaryllis, that was my other thought but got it wrong and chose the wrong option, sorry. 

Still a lovely big showy flower though.

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:21pm

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:21pm

Found it - The app is called plant snap 

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