Please help me identify this....

Pleas ehelp me identify the variety of Lunaria / Honesty that I have. A picture can be seen at:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b6/ix66/Honestyflowercloseup.jpg

Thanks

 

Sorry can't help you there but just wanted to say wow what lovely flowers.

 

Lunaria annua with a virus? There is one which causes the flowers to be white streaked and a bit odd shaped. Otherwise ????

[ 04. May 2006, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: Palustris ]

 

It is lovely... I wonder if the seeds will be true?

 

Perhaps. Though it is the second year that I have had such a plant (I dropped the seeds in the soil from the previous plant). But the fact that the leaves and capsules are a much brighter green than the common lunaria, and the fact that the snails love to eat it, but not the common lunaria, make me think it is not just a sick plant...?

 

Let us hope so - it is the second year I have had one of these pop up so I will plant up some seeds sometime soon...

 

If it has seeded well and there are any to spare I would love some to try!

 

Hello ix66 and welcome to GC! There is a variety of Honesty called Munstead Purple and a Variegata which has rosy-purple flowers, both fragrant, so perhaps it's one of these. Your photo is a bit blurry to me!

 

I have just looked up Munstead purple and it has no white bits on the petals and so think it isn't this...

 

...and the Variegata seems only variegated in the leaves not the petals..

 

If it IS a healthy plant then you may have a colour break. IF it continues to come true from seed then you should get in touch with someone like Thompson and Morgan. They are always on the look out for new varieties of plants.

 

It is the L annua, starry bi-coloured.

 

I believe it is not this as I have not found any flower image on the internet resembling it - I have spent a lot of time looking...

Maybe you could find a picture to confirm this...?

 

It's the best I can do, but I know you won't agree with it ... it does seem that everyone prefers to show the picture of the seed but I'm positive you have the starry bi-coloured ...

http://www.pages4u.co.uk/musicalinstruments_Lunaria+Annua_0.php