Re: Unknown plant
- Subject: Re: Unknown plant
- From: "wim van putten" w*@mail.telepac.pt
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:01:04 -0000
Hi Cathy and Moira
Cathy's guess is right. I checked in Botanica and Conservatory and Indoor
Plants, part 2 from Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix and it is definetly a
Montanoa. The species is probably bipinnatifida, but I have to check this
later in the season, when it has more mature leaves.
Thanks
Wim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony and Moira Ryan" <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Catherine Ratner" <catherineratner@earthlink.net>; "Mediterannean
Plants List" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: Unknown plant
> Catherine Ratner wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Ryans,
> >
> > My best guess is Montanoa. There are quite a few species, though none
that
> > I know of sound anything like "netal" which suggests "natal" (Africa).
> > Montanoas are from Mexico and Central America, have big soft leaves
which
> > can be aromatic. Cathy
>
> Hi Catherine
> I have never seen a Motanoa myself, but the description in Botanica
> (large evergreen daisy bushes) certainly sounds promising.
>
> The reason I don't know them is I am sure largely because they are too
> tender for this district. If I lived in Auckland or places north they
> might be familiar.
>
> I don't know how many species are in cultivation, but the three
> mentioned by Botanica have the specific names "arborescens, bipinnafida
> and grandiflora", which seem to have no conceivable connection with
> "netal". There is of course the legitimate species name "metal" (as in
> datura metal, but by no stretch of imagination could _its_ flowers be
> described as daisy-like).
>
> We really need a description of the habit and foliage before we can even
> make educated guesses I think.
>
> Moira
>
>
>
> --
> Tony & Moira Ryan,
> Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
>
