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| Author: | regferk [ Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Shrub identification |
I would like some help identifying a shrub: While we were at the Dallas Zoo, we took our daughter over to the Children's Zoo area and there was the most gorgeous shrub. It had small oval shaped blue-green leaves that were paired along arching branches. The leaves at the ends of the stems were starting to turn red (because of the fall change?) and at the tip if every stem was a pink flower that looked somewhat like a spider-lily. It was in partial shade/shade areas. Would anyone happen to know what this might be? I would love to get one if I could figure out what it is. |
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| Author: | sandih [ Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:11 am ] |
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Sounds like Texas Sage or Cenzio... Take a look at the link. http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/54689/index.html |
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| Author: | regferk [ Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Not it |
None of those look like it at all. The leaves were a very dark green, almost blue, on long arching branches paired on either side of the branch and the flowers were more "spidery". |
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| Author: | regferk [ Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Found it! |
In case anyone else was wondering also, it turns out to be a Chinese Fringe Flower (Loropetalum chinense). |
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| Author: | sandih [ Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:58 am ] |
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Chinese Fringe flower usually bloom in the spring I thought. When you said blue-green leaves I just thought of the Texas Sage. |
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| Author: | regferk [ Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Chinese Fringe Flower |
I though they only bloomed in spring also, but that is deffinately what it was. When I started looking into I found that there are lots of different varieties and closely related plants. There was a gorgeous white blooming variety. It is also closely related to Witch-Hazel, which has the same kind of blooms (yellow) and blooms through the winter. |
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| Author: | Newt [ Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:31 pm ] |
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There is Chinese fringe flower - Loropetalum chinense which is related to witch hazel. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/ ... nense.html There is Chinese fringe tree - Chionanthus retusa http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/c/chiret/chiret1.html http://www.botanic.jp/plants-ha/hitago.htm Then there is Fringe tree - Chionanthus virginicus - an American native. http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/c/chivir/chivir1.html http://www.floridata.com/ref/c/chionan.cfm Newt |
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