RE: Australian un-named

Ciao  Alessandra

I carefully looked through Ann Prescott's 
"It's Blue with Five Petals"
obviously checking the 
"yellow with five petals section", but the book does only cover the
Adelaide region, a long shot but I couldn't find anything like your
description.
I also checked through a couple of other colour coded books, sorry.

Any idea what the Family is Alessandra??
I have leanings towards Proteaceae??
The seed pod dsecription sounds vaugely Proteaceae like
and some in the family have tubular flowers...

as a last resort you could take a close up pic of the flowers, pods 
and leaves and send it over (address below) if I can't work out what 
it is I could scan it and email it around
we'll work it out somehow I reckon, love a good puzzle!

I sure hope they don't ruin your garden
digging out that Tomb. Surely the value of the garden itself
would count for some sympathetic form of Archeological approach.
I don't suppose there is any compensation for damage done?

On the bright side you've got another interesting snippet to add to your 
CV now,  as a gardening archeologist, which in a city as old as Rome isn't 
as silly as it sounds     ;-)

Cheers, Rod

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Rod Randall
Weed Science Group
Agriculture Western Australia
Locked Bag N° 4
Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983
Australia

                 "I weed..." 

 ph: 08 9368 3443
fax: 08 9474 3814
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> ----------
> From: 	Alessandra
> Reply To: 	puglisi@librs6k.vatlib.it
> Sent: 	Thursday, 29 April 1999 12:54 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Australian un-named
> 
> I know I should never have done this, but I could not resist. I went to a
> garden fair and  bought some plants that were sold with incorrect names,
> or
> unnamed at all.  This is the list: a scented leaved Pelargonium that came
> with the approximate name of P.  be..ensis " Hard", or something like that
> (the label was almost completely faded): grey-green leaves, deeply lobed,
> scent of spice, white flowers. Then I bought Salvia Urica, correct name I
> think, but I don't have Betsy Clebsch's book, so I could not find many
> information. The third one is an australian  shrub,   with grey, narrow,
> willow like leaves; lemon-yellow, tubular flowers made by  5 petals
> attached
> at the base to form a sort of funnel; then the lower petal  curls
> backwards;
> protruding stamens; globular seed pods with a pointed tip (looks like they
> are drooping, but are still immature). The man said it would reach 3
> mt/9ft
> height and width. Any idea? Rod?
> Of course they were not the only plants I bought. Came back with an empty
> wallet and the car jampacked with plants. I had fun!
> On a totally different matter, i just wanted to share my frustration.
> Today
> we were digging holes in the Bass garden, to plant some grapevines, and we
> found a ROMAN TOMB! I had to stop the work and alert the Agency for
> Archeology of the city, and who knows what will happen now (they'll
> probably
> dig the whole garden...)
> 
> Well, thank you for your help on the plants above,
> ciao,
> Alessandra
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> 
> Alessandra Vinciguerra
> American Academy in Rome
> Via Masina,5
> 00153 Roma
> Tel:0039\6\5846.444
> 
> puglisi@librs6k.vatlib.it
> 
> Check the Academy's Web site: http://www.aarome.org
>
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