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Mystery blue plant
jenny-the-wren
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Hi there, I wonder if anyone can identify a lovely wee plant I bought at a nursery today? Unfortunately, there was no identification on it and I was unable to ask anyone what it was called. It was from a greenhouse. Attached are a few photos.
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It's lovely! I don't know, but the flower looks a bit streptocarpus(y) - I'll be keeping my eye out for the answer
Billericay - Essex
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Thanks Pete, that was my first thought too, but I think the leaves are wrong. Fingers crossed someone on here comes to the rescue, otherwise I'll try to email the nursery for an answer, and pass it onto you.
Thanks Jenny - I'll keep an eye on this thread
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
This ones got me intrigued too. The flower looks like a streptocarpus but the leaves aren't quite right
I've had a nosey on google images and found "streptocarpus saxorum", the false African violet. But again not sure about the leaves ???
Those leaves look so familiar ... i want to say related to the Primulina?
Have a look at Deinostigma .... as you say Enchantica, formerly classified with Primulina.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you for all the replies so far! Kitty, I think you may have got it with streptocarpus saxorum, although I need to do a bit more web searching on its characterics.
I got it from Ardencraig Gardens on the Isle of Bute - Bute benefits from the gulf stream and it's possible to grow plants here that wouldn't survive in my own garden on mainland Scotland. I find that plants here sometimes have extra big flowers because of this too - my aunt's fuchsias have the most enormous blooms, for example, so it can make identification extra confusing at times!
It is Streptocarpella Saxorum, closely related to the African Violets. They are tender plants so over winter indoors. But can be grown outside when the weather is warm.