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Title: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 18:29:36

What is this?

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on June 21, 2015, 18:47:02

Could be a Protea? Difficult to identify when so little of the plant is seen. Is this a perennial plant, or a shrub/tree?

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 19:07:14

Here is another pic of another part of the plant

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: elsa hoffmann on June 21, 2015, 19:12:51

Protea family? Pincushion?

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on June 21, 2015, 19:15:53

That was my initial assumption too ... but this is not anything I'm familiar with.

Perhaps Fons B. can contribute?

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 19:15:58

Another view

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: elsa hoffmann on June 21, 2015, 19:30:32

I would still say Protea family...

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Andrea B. on June 21, 2015, 19:36:57

some kind of bottlebrush ?
bottlebrush = Callistemon.
This grows in the western US desert areas. So it probably is not that.
And I think the leaves are wrong for its being Callistemon.

There is also some Australian bottlebrush. Beaufortia.

Where did you find this plant, Frank?

Bjørn, you photographed a bottlebrush in Twenty-Neen Palms.

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 19:50:54

Light is better now after the rain:

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 19:51:27

Bottlebrush is a good comparison

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on June 21, 2015, 20:23:53

Callistemon is in the Myrtle family and bears close similarity to your plant.

Andrea remembers incorrectly as I cannot find any shots of this genus from the US trip in 2012. However, I do have some from South Africa in 2009.

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 21:17:07

Fascinating Fauna in the Garden of my father's wife

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 21, 2015, 21:28:35

thank you!!!

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: rayB on June 22, 2015, 15:28:29

Definitely Callistemon from Australia. Not sure the exact species. Could be C. glaucus or maybe C. personii. Have hundreds of blooms here in our garden at the height of summer. Had a second flowering this year during Autumn, but now all finished. Banksias currently looking brilliant.

rayB

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 22, 2015, 16:41:23

Very good to know that here are the people who know these things

Title: Re: what is the name of this plant?
Post by: Andrea B. on June 25, 2015, 22:26:39

Andrea remembers incorrectly as I cannot find any shots of this genus from the US trip in 2012.

You shot it on the grounds of the hotel in 29 Palms.
It was a low-growing shrub.