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KeenOnGreen
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i collected this as seed in Madeira two years ago and it is about to flower for the first time. I think the flowers might be red. Any ideas?
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KeenOnGreen
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KeenOnGreen
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It looks like a caryopteris. Possibly.......................
@ KeenOnGreen,
Why not wait for the flowers before asking for ID?
Look at leonotis leonurus.
H-C
Thanks all you got it right. It's such a distinctive shape I didn't want to wait for the flower to appear before posting. I'm dismayed to read it's a half hardy annual. It's taken me two years to get it to this size and I'm worried that frosts aren't that far away. If I pop it in the greenhouse for winter do you think it would survive, or is expecting an annual to live for three years too much?
Well if you can get seed to germinate once, you can do it again! However, it may require a longer summer than we can give it to set seed, so the greenhouse might have to be the answer.
H-C
I used the only seeds I had, and this was the only one that germinated. The greenhouse it is!