shrub identity?
- Subject: shrub identity?
- From: P*@cs.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 03:05:33 EDT
Gardening Friends,
I am hoping someone can help me identify a very unusual ( to me at least)
shrub that I saw in a yard today. This yard had four of them, and yet I've
never seen anything like it!
Very floriferous! Made me stop the car and back up! Two had vibrant
orange-red flowers. Two had coral flowers with pale edges to the petals.
The many petals are fluffy and tissue-like, with lots of yellow stamens, and
from the front look somewhat like an old rose--about 2" across. What I
thought was strange were the buds. They are round balls, made of thick,
succulent flesh, that open and sit behind the petals like a pointy-scalloped
cup, which gives the flowers a slightly trumpet shape. No scent at all.
The habit of the shrub is multi-stemmed (more like a lilac than a forsythia),
about 8' tall, vase-like. The leaves are very small and spatulate (or
elliptical), sort of like a boxwood and in little clusters along the
branches. Stems are smooth. No thorns EXCEPT one on the terminal end of
each branch!
This was a complete mystery to me, and after trying one nursery, several
encylopedias, and several websites which use such techinical botanical keys
that I was not successful, I thought I'd try here!
Hope I didn't give too much information! I'm not sure I covet this shrub, it
was quite a knockout!
Thanks for any info, I just gotta know what it was . . . .
SP in Portland, OR
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