Just for fun

Could be Blackthorn.
I was thinking of something like this, but I cant explain the height difference, unless its the wet weather.
http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/api/eryyu/

 

I know what this is, but would anyone like to have a guess, I dont think its seen that often.

 

pete, you and your odd plants ... even I'll have to have the weekend with this one ...

 

Looks like the Michelia I want, called the port wine michelia? Someone on GC has the one with banana scented flowers in creamy / white, but I like this one. To me the flowers smell like mulled wine.

 

It's sorta opening up like a water lily! So how about a bush lily???

 

Calycanthus occidentalis - Californian Allspice

It is lovely pete, is it hardy?

 

If it is Calycanthus, here is some info
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Calycanthus+occidentalis
It seems it is hardy.

 

Isn't it lovely- RHS encyclopaedia says it is hardy. Have you got one, pete?

 

Liz, if pete has got one, maybe if we tell him how wonderful / generous / georgeous he is he might let us have some seed :D

 

Welldone Blackthorn,
You got that one easy.
If anyone would like seed I'm sure I can find some in the autumn, it does take a few years to flower from seed.
If anyone is REALLY interested, I could try some half ripe cuttings, no gaurantees though.
Its been hardy with me for more than twenty years now.

 

Blackthorn, you really are clever ... I would never have come up with that. Well done you!

 

This is a definite HOUSE plant.

Well, warm greenhouse any way.

 

It looks like the leaves of a small tree I saw growing on the beach in Florida and Venuzuela. I don't know the name though.

 

OH KG, you need the name. :D

 

I know - but I don't know it!!! Is it that small tree though?