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Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:04 am
by charlie
Actinidia?
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:35 am
by Chad
You are right that that is the related genus that you grow.
So the family is Actinidiaceae.
I'll leave it like that for a day and see if anyone can get closer.
Chad
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:29 pm
by charlie
How about Saurauia madrensis?
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:35 pm
by Chad
Right Genus, but an Asian species, not Mexican [though I have that one too!].
Chad
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:00 pm
by Chad
OK that was Saurauia napaulensis which I can't tell apart from the more widely grown [Clive at Hardy Exotics sells it] Saurauia subspinosa.
How about one that is much more widely grown now.
Chad
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:04 am
by Chad
This one was Lomatia ferruginea. The only Proteaceae that I have tried that I haven't killed off!
How about this shrub;
Chad
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:54 am
by Paul S
a Sonchus?
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:31 pm
by Chad
Yes,
And the only nearly reliably hardy one and I think the one with the biggest flowers...
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:07 pm
by Paul S
Then probably S. fruticosus. I have had S. acaulis come though winters before now but never tested one punishingly. S. fruticosus came back from underground after a -6C and I've heard of it surviving lower.
Re: One to guess!! ?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:57 pm
by Chad
Spot on.
Young plants seem to be happy being herbaceous if cut to the ground by frost; old woody plants just die!
I try to make sure I have a cutting under cover in case, I wouldn't want to lose it.
How about this one, another shrub [or herbaceous if frosted too hard].
