Re: Persian Shield Flower
I've seen plenty of Coleus flower spikes Jim. And you're right, they do
look similar. I had thought they were in the same family but they're not.
Strobilanthes is in the Acanthaceae family and Solenostemon (Coleus) and
Plectranthus are in the Lamiaceae family. The Persian Shield flower is, I
don't know, maybe 50 times larger than a coleus flower. A list of other
family members of Acanthaceae family can be viewed at:
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/cgi-bin/web.dbs/genlist.pl?ACANTHACEAE
but the only ones I recognize offhand are Justicia, Pachystachys, Ruellia,
and Thungergia, though to my untrained eye, I don't see any family
resemblance. I'm sure you'd recognize many more than I would.
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Persian Shield Flower
> Just dawned on me [duh], Kitty, the flower spike is a dead ringer for
> the coleus flower spike. I guess that's why it was familiar. Coleus,
> incidentally, produce elongated football shaped seed pods that are
> maybe a half inch long.
>
> On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 05:42 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > Well, I had planned to cut the flowers off, but I'll keep some just
> > for you
> > so we can find out. Since they are so easy from cuttings, I would
> > never
> > think to start them from seed.
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Persian Shield Flower
> >
> >
> >> For some reason, Kitty, that's about what I thought it would look
> >> like.
> >> If it sets seed, let us know.
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >>
> >>> Persian Shield Flower
> >>> Hi friends - I know that Persian Shield is not grown for its flowers
> >>> but
> >>> was always curious as to what they looked like - couldn't find a
> >>> pic
> >>> on the web. Well, today one of my cuttings flowered. I thought you
> >>> might
> >>> like to see it. Not really clear pictures but good enogh to see the
> >>> blue
> >>> (with some white) tubular 1 x .75 inch flowers. there are 2 photos.
> >>>
> >>> http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kmrsy/
> >>> detail?.tok=phSEOvABT6v3gifg&.dir=/befuddled&.dnm=b127.jpg&.src=ph
> >>>
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