Re: plant ID
Joe Seals wrote:
>
> Could it be Westringia ("Australian Rosemary")?
>
> Joe Seals,
> Santa Maria, CA
> North of Point Conception
> --- Barbara Sargent <rsgt@california.com> wrote:
> > There's a lovely plant I pass every day on my way to
> > work.
> > I'd like to root it if I can and, also, to know what
> > it is.
> >
> > It looks superficially like rosemary. That is, the
> > leaves
> > are the same size and shape. But the plant has a
> > lighter,
> > almost feathery quality. Like rosemary it has small
> > lavender
> > flowers which bud from the base of the leaves. The
> > buds are
> > tiny balls. It could be a salvia because the stems
> > are
> > square. It's around one foot tall and 8 inches wide
> > but I
> > don't know if this is its full growth, and the base
> > is
> > woody.
A good guess I should say Joe
or even possibly Prostanthera, both do belong to the right family anyhow
(Lamiaceae) and quite a few of the species have the right sort of
leaves.
Westringa fruiticosa is even known in Australia as the Coast Rosemary,
though it can't be this species which has white flowers only, but
several of the others have lavender-coloured flowers.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
