Thanks a lot, Chadwell ji. On 22 Jan 2017 8:02 a.m., "[email protected]" < [email protected]> wrote:
> I am confused by this. You say "taken in the wild" in the UK but Cardiff > is hardly "in in the wild" and this appears to a cultivated > plant in a situation that as far as I can tell is in a cultivated area or > very close to. Probably only partially naturalised - at most. > > There are no red-flowered Potentillas native to the UK. Potentilla > nepalensis is listed in 'Alien Plants of the British Isles' as a casual > garden escape i.e. not properly naturalised. I doubt very much that the > PURE, original Potentilla nepalensis has escaped. > > There are quite a number of cultivars of P.nepalensis available but most > have pink flowers. A hybrid between P.atrosanguinea and P.nepalensis > is known. Of these, 'Gibson's Scarlet' is one of the common ones. I > cannot see sufficient detail in the picture above to be certain but think > it is > entirely possible that the plant you photographed is a cultivar with some > P.atrosanguinea in its ancestry or other Potentillas not necessarily of > Himalayan > origin. Once in cultivation especially in places where they are being > bred and deliberately crossed, can rapidly get mixed-up. Does NOT appear > pure > P.nepalensis to me. > > On Friday, 7 October 2011 09:20:23 UTC+1, Neha Singh wrote: > >> >> This Pic was taken in d wild @ Cardiff , Wales, UK. >> Dated- July 2010. >> >> Looks like Potentilla atrosanguinea . Unfortunately I couldt find other >> pics of this sp, so for now I have only this . >> >> Regards >> Neha Singh >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
