Re: Looking for plant ID
- Subject: Re: Looking for plant ID
- From: John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net
- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 08:17:32 -0800
on 2/8/03 2:18 AM, Krzysztof Kozminski at kk@kozminski.com wrote:
> I have two mystery plants and would be grateful for any suggestion as
> to their identity. To see the photos, go to:
>
> http://photos.yahoo.com/kkozminski
> The other two photos (names prefixed with 2) is an evergreen mystery
> plant that grows about 1.5 feet tall, flowering in May. The leaf
> texture resembles Phormium, which it clearly is not.
>
> Any ideas what these things are?
KK,
I believe your iridaceous flower is Aristea ecklonii, a South African
native. It seeds around profusely, and it can easily crowd out practically
any other plant. I consider it a pernicious weed, but since its blossoms
are the most heavenly blue, I keep a couple of clumps of it around--in a
narrow bed between a wall and a driveway, where it can't get our of hand.
(Your photo shows the flowers purplish, but I presume that is a color
distortion attributable to the photographic process).
John C. MacGregor IV
815 Park Avenue #4
South Pasadena, CA 91030-2788
(626) 799-1554
jonivy@earthlink.net
