Couple of plants

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  1. Aesculus

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    Found these in the botanic gardens glasshouse and couldn't fine any labels:scratch:


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    and this one...

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    Thanks in advance:thumb:
     
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    Methinks the second one could be Aechmea ramosa variegata...
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    First is clianthus formosus, a devil of a plant to grow.

    The second, I haven't a clue.

    Leaves look like a varigated clivia, but the flowers are all wrong:scratch:
     
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    I think I may of Found out what the 2nd plant is but I'm not sure it looks simmliar to two genus in the bromeliaceae family: Portea and Ursulea
     
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