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What is this?

Post by Shnookie » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:46 pm

Does anyone recognize this flower. It came out of a package of mixed seeds. The plant in the middle. It makes small flowers that are pale yellow with a red center. I have never seen the petals out flat, only up like they are in the picture. The flower only lasts a day I think. It makes lots of seeds.
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Re: What is this?

Post by labradors » Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:34 am

Could it be Okra?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Farrier1987 » Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:30 am

Not Okra, that grows about 4 ft high. I am thinking what my mother called pinks, or a morning glory kind of thing.

Pinks are Dianthus, Sweet William. Search that and see if the foliage etc might match.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Killerbunny » Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:00 am

If pinks does it have a wonderful scent?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Jaye » Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:37 am

Are you talking about the one little flower almost right in the middle of your photo? The yellow with orange-red centre? If that's the one you're talking about, I'm having a hard time getting it blown up enough to be able to try to identify it (pretty blurry if I enlarge it too much). Do you have a closer shot of it?
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Re: What is this?

Post by kenya » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:53 pm

Pinks
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Re: What is this?

Post by Shnookie » Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:31 pm

Not the pinks. The small plant in the middle with the tiny flower. I haven't got a better picture of the flower yet, but here's a closer one of the plant.
The round striped things are the seed pods. There is a bit of pink that is a closed flower bud.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Shnookie » Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:35 pm

I got a picture of the flowers when they were open. They are about the size of a loonie.
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Re: What is this?

Post by kenya » Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:47 pm

Anemone?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Farrier1987 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:51 am

The flower does look like Okra, but the foliage is not at all similar to what I grow for okra. Okra doesn't usually open that wide, starys more like a funnel and doesn't close at night. Not sure what you have there.
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