Re: Kennedia nigricans?
Gordon Walker wrote:
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> Nan Sterman wrote:
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> > Anyone got any experience with Kennedia nigricans?
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> > Nan Sterman
> > San Diego County California
> > Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
> Nan
> I grew a few Kennedia species from mixed seed about four years ago. The
> only one that survived our zone 8 winter, in a pot on an open terrace
> has very small "black"( perhaps very, very dark purple) flowers and is
> possibly the species nigricans.
> In my experience it is an evergreen twiner to three or four metres with
> interesting but certainly not showy flowers.
> It survives four or five degrees centigrade of frost without damage but
> is defoliated or cut to the ground by lower temperatures.
> I have since moved into a zone 9 climate and will try it on a fence in
> the open§--
Hi Gordon
Whatever species of Kennedia you have it isn't nigricans, which has
quite large flowers which are a striking mix of half black and half
yellow.
My Australian Wildflower catalogue list most speces, but probably nor
all. The one which sounds most like yours is K retrorsa which has pink
purple flowers. It is described as a ground cover spreading about 4m.
However the colour of the flowers is described as "bright" so yours may
be yet another species my book doesn't list.
All the other species actually mentioned have red flowers.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
