RE: What is this flower?

I think that's it! Thanks. I have not seen it growing around here at all, so
I will try and remember to take some cuttings. The flowers are pretty
attractive and it's been blooming most of the summer. 

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Theresa
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:32 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] What is this flower?

Try this-  Purple/Blue Potato Bush or Paraguey Nightshade (aka 
Lycianthes rantonettii although I also found it referred to as Solanum 
*rantonnetii*)

see weblink:  http://www.horticopia.com/hortpix/html/pc3469.htm

Pretty sure this is your plant.  Hardy zones 8-10.

Theresa
(Sacramento- where there are LOTS of these around)





Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR wrote:

>I thought of that, but none of the pictures I can find really shows leaves
>like this plant. And I don't see the bright yellow stamens (?) either. I
>don't think Tibouchina would overwinter in this zone either, but then I
>don't know when they were planted. Still, it's the closest I could come
when
>looking through my books. 
>I might take some cuttings just for fun. 
>
>Cyndi 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
>Of Barbara Tandy
>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:07 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] What is this flower?
>
>Tibouchina sp. ("Princess flower")???
>--Barb, Grass Valley
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:28 AM
>Subject: [CHAT] What is this flower?
>
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone recognize this? This shrub is growing at a house we bought and
>>are fixing up to rent. Seems familiar but I can't find any pictures of it 
>>in
>>any of my books. It's about 4 - 5 feet tall, with long branches growing
>>pretty much straight up, and not bushy at all; there are three of them 
>>right
>>against the house in a narrow space about 8 feet long and only a foot 
>>wide.
>>They don't branch out a lot. The leaves are fuzzy and soft. The white
>>blotches on the flowers in the picture are damage, not normal color.  I'm
>>wondering if this is something the previous owners stuck in during spring,
>>and it will die over winter, or if it's perennial.
>>
>>    
>>
>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gardencatalogs/album?.dir=/2023&.src=ph&.tok=
p
>  
>
>>hsNP1DBLagASqtF
>>
>>Cyndi
>>
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