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Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
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Can anyone name this lovely plant for me - the flowers are a reddish/purple colour. Thanks.

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  • Fif2Fif2 Posts: 69
    I’m not 100% sure but it looks like an Osteospermum of some sort - maybe Nairobi Purple.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Pericallis?  
    Utah, USA.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Looks like Pericallis to me too.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    is it what I used to call cineraria? Maybe it's had a name change since then.
    Devon.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited May 2018
    Yes that's him.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericallis_×_hybrida

  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    These compact forms of cineraria are called Senetti...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I knew them as cineraria when I worked in garden centres, but that's over 30 years ago now.
    Lots of plants have had name changes since then. Some more than once.
    Devon.
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    That's interesting Hostafan - I remember the name cineraria too.  Thank you all for helping to name the plant - will it survive a winter here I wonder?
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