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stunning mystery plant
2 commentswhite to pink/rose lantern-like clusters with blood-red tiny blossoms it was purchased at Menard's in MN and I suspect it may be an outdoor plant, rather than a houseplant. can anyone identify...
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Please Help ME ID THIS PLANT --- Dying Family Member Wants Me to ID and Order as Dying Wish
1 commentPlease HELP ME ID THIS PLANT - I AM DESPERATE TO FIND and/or HAVE ONE DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE ASAP -- TO MEET DYING WISH I am desperate to identify a Flax lily type of plant or perhaps...
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heart shaped leaves, red stems
1 commentThis appeared spontaneously in someone's garden. It's about 5 feet high. Location; Melbourne, Australia. Thankyou in advance
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mystery plant
2 commentsAnybody know what it is? the seeds were definitely mislabeled. Can't really tell you any other information since it's being grown indoors under a plant light. Distinctive pock marks on...
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Dainty flowers
These pretty flowers--about 1 to 1" long are a very hardy perennial in my neighbor's (N. Italy) Zone 7 yard this November. Thin bushy stalks with pointy leaves. He says they have been coming up for...
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Mystery berries
3 commentsImages sent to me by friend in Boston, MA (Zone 6). I'd love help ID'g it!
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Unknown plant, stems, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
4 commentsI took this picture of interesting and very pretty stems in the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. No identification. It's been 'bugging' me ever since. What is it?
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Please identify
5 commentsThese plants started growing midsummer in one of my perrenial beds in about 4 spots. I kept the four pictured and easily pulled the rest out by hand. They reached about 4 ft high, never flowered...
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what is this plant?
2 commentsThis plant wasn't marked when I bought it. It has bloomed all summer and fall and has a nice airy look. Looks a bit like a lily. I'm not sure if it's an annual or a perennial as...
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what is this plant?
1 commentThis plant?/tree was over 8 feet tall. All the leaves fell off so it was cut down to 4 feet and waited to see what happends. This is the results but what is this plant?
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its flower are different than the carolina allspice. Fast growing.
1 commentIm new in this wonderful site so please bare with me. I bought this bush three months ago when it was only one foot tall. It is now 6 feet tall and very wide. I was told it was a carolina alllspice...
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What is this plant?
1 commentI have recently moved into a new house and no one seems to know what this is. The theories range from a weed to some kind of shrub. I am posting from New Zealand.
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Can anyone tell me what this tree that looks like an umbrella is?
7 commentsI bought this tree from a man on the side of the road in South Alabama, while I was there visiting my sister, and we were on the way to Pensacola Beach in FL, to spend the day. The leaf looks a lot...
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What is this large leafed plant, please?
2 commentsI am stymied! What might this plant be that is growing in the gravel at the side of a house that we just bought (September) near Victoria, BC? The plant is about three ft. high. The deer...
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Fall bloomer
2 commentsThis is a low growing groundcover, with green leaves all summer, turning red and with blue flowers blooming in October. This photo was taken in northern Michigan in midOctobernbspCan...
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pretty little begonia
1 commentI couldn't resist the flower/leaf color combination of this begonia which was half-price at a nursery today. Does anyone have any idea what its name might be? In exchange for being almost...
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Shrub with lovely blue leaves
1 commentI hate it when plant labels disintegrate. This is a gorgeous shrub, purchased years ago, and finally planted this year (I am an unrecovered plantaholic). But I have no idea at all what it...
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peculiar perennial
2 commentsThis taller, large-leaved perennial can grow to 3 feet. It produces a small cluster of single lemon yellow flowers at the top of the stem which open in mid-late summer. (The only bloom to open this...
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delicate mystery
3 commentsThese rose-pink flowers have just opened at the tip of a long, ca 18 inch stem rising from strappy leaves resembling those of an iris or sisyrinchium. From the timing (end September), I would guess...
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leaves with purple on back side
6 commentsI save cuttings of this every winter and repot in summer. It has tubular lavender flowers and leaves that are green on tops and purple on undersides. I have forgotten the name of it. Can anybody...
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please help identify this plant
3 commentsI was given this plant and told it was a Bamboo but I cant find anything like it anywhere on the internet, its about 6ft tall and there are no side shoots at all just the main stem and leaves...
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Shrub or perennial with pink tubular flowers
1 commentThis is a plant in a neighbor's garden which she and I need help identifiying. It is about 2 1/2 feet in height, and I am not sure whether it is a shrub, or a very vigorous perennial. nbspShe...
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Shrub with sand-papery leaves
This is a shrub that a neighbor has asked me to help identify. She and her husband have continually been cutting it back, and cannot remember if it has ever bloomed (probably because they keep...
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About this Plant ID Gallery
There are many reasons why gardeners--even seasoned ones--need help identifying a plant now and then. Maybe you inherited a garden during a move to a new home, received an unknown division from a friend, found a random volunteer in the corner of a bed, or lost plant tag. Maybe you knew once, and now you just can't remember.
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