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Anisodontea query

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Posted by TonyfromOz z10 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 25, 04 at 4:05

I have been searching for a name for this Anisodontea (pictures below) since I bought the plant about 3 years ago in a local market near Sydney, labelled merely Anisodontea sp.

I tried it last year in the Name That Plant forum but no-one could help.

It's the fourth Anisodontea I have grown, the others being A. capensis (at least so labelled) and 2 hybrid cultivars, all shrubs of modest size. But this one is a giant, now about 4 metres high and 5 metres wide and bearing thousands of flowers right through winter and spring.

The flowers are larger than A. capensis, around 3 cm across, and paler pink. The leaves are heavily felted on both sides, giving them a very pale green hue.

Anyone have any ideas?

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  • Posted by bahia SF Bay Area (My Page) on
    Mon, Sep 27, 04 at 21:32

Try looking at information for the Anisodontea 'Tara's Pink' which is a selected from by Andy Baldwin at San Marcos Growers in Santa Barbara,(www.smgrowers.com). It is also a rather confused plant group here in California, but their web site might help you pin this one down. You might also try looking at the web sites for Suncrest Nurseries in Watsonville and Monterey Bay Wholesale Nursery, both of which also have information on-line on their various Anisodontea offerings. Several other more unusual species are also being offered by Annie's Annuals here in Richmond, you can see her offerings at www.anniesannuals.com.

The various Anisodonteas have gone in and out of popularity here in California over the last ten years, but are all exceptional for amazingly prolonged bloom season and ease of growth in dry summer climates. The only negative aspect is their lack of freeze tolerance to our occasional deep freezes here, they mostly bite the dust at 25F. I remember seeing a more low growing herbaceous species in the Little Karoo Desert area of the Western Cape, which I would love to be able to grow here in California, but it had no mature seed in mid spring when I saw it. The flowers were easily the size of Oenothera berlandierii, and on a similar sized plant.

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You might the plant ID service at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden http://www.nbi.ac.za/

Here is a link that might be useful: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

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I think Bahia's suggestion of Anisodontea 'Tara's Pink' may be the one, Tony. It looks very much like what grows here at the Tijuana Estuary (preserved land). I'll try to make a jaunt over there to find out which one it is.

Wow~just noticed how long ago you asked about this! :P
~Rosemarie

Here is a link that might be useful: Anisodontea 'Tara's Pink'

  
 

 

 


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