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What is this tall white plant with rose-like flowers?

EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
edited July 2022 in Plants
I took this photo during a walk. The photo shows a tall tree/plant with lovely white flowers with yellow centre; the flowers quite resemble single rose blooms, but they are not. The leaves on the plant were quite different too. Can someone tell me what it is? Thanks in advance. I do not have any more pictures, though I tried to take a zoom photo from the pavement.

Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

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  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Hibiscus?
    Sunny Dundee
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It may be a Carpenteria 

    Billericay - Essex

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  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    @Pete.8 yes, I think so. The flowers are more anemone-like rather than roses. The prominent golden stamens were absolutely shining in the sunlight.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • justandnobodyelsejustandnobodyelse Posts: 128
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/21715/romneya-coulteri/details

    might be one these?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That's the one I was trying to think of @justandnobodyelse .... I've not had enough coffee yet this morning for my brain to trawl the name up ... 

    If that is the one, beware its suckering habit ... there are stories of it invading foundations and appearing in one's living room uninvited 😱  They may be apocryphal, of course.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    @justandnobodyelse thanks, it could well be that. I noticed only the flowers, didn't take a closer look at the leaves. To me, flowers of Carpentaria and romney-a-coulteri look quite similar. Please can you tell me the differences. Next time I'm in that area, I'll try to get a better photo.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    Thanks @Dovefromabove. It's not in my garden, it is in a front garden about a mile away from mine.  :)
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited July 2022

     


    Need clearer pics please.


    Carpenteria Romneya coulteri

    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Eustace said:
    Thanks @Dovefromabove. It's not in my garden, it is in a front garden about a mile away from mine.  :)
    Yes, got that ... but thought I'd mention it just in case you were tempted to get one .... forewarned is forearmed and all that  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    edited July 2022
    Thanks @Silver surfer next time I'll try to take a better photo and look for lobed leaves and distinct petals in the flowers. It is in someone else's garden, so I can only see it from the pavement.
     @Dovefromabove, 🙏
    Thanks everyone for your quick response.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

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