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Spiky ID please
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:23 am
by charlie
Saw this flowering on Madeira in 2012, on returning this year was surprised to see the flower spike still there, now dropping baby plantlets, I picked a few up and as some now seem to be growing thought it would be useful to find out for sure what it is
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this is a better view of some leaves
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Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:12 pm
by flounder
Looks a bit like some sort of pandanus
Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:15 pm
by conrad
A Furcraea? Maybe F. selloa var. marginata?
Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:43 am
by charlie
conrad wrote:A Furcraea? Maybe F. selloa var. marginata?
Thanks, I thought it had similarities to the Fucraea I see down here but they were so big it made me doubt myself!
Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:44 am
by charlie
flounder wrote:Looks a bit like some sort of pandanus
I don't think so but I can see where you are coming from
Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:17 pm
by flounder
charlie wrote:flounder wrote:Looks a bit like some sort of pandanus
I don't think so but I can see where you are coming from
Now had a second look, growth habit is nothing like a pandanus!
Re: Spiky ID please
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:17 pm
by SteveP
It looks a bit like Agave Angustifolia var. Marginata but the flower suggests Furcraea
Therefore, Furcraea Hexapetala var. Marginata ?
Steve