Garden Flowers For ID : Purple : California : 13DEC14 : AK-40

[Aarti S. Khale]

Cultivated garden flowers seen in San Francisco on 1/10/14.

Unfortunately, these are the only pictures I have and only these stalks were visible from where the pictures were taken.

Aarti

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

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Calandrinia sp. [Portulacaceae].

Best wishes, Viplav

[Aarti S. Khale]

Viplav Ji,

Thanks a lot for the id.

It would have been difficult for me to guess this one.

On searching, the pictures resemble Calandrina spectabilis, common name Rock Purslane.

Regards,

Aarti 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID 

Distributed as   Calandrinia spectabilis (USA- Cultivated)? 

It is difficult to confirm identification without leaves. Strangely Calandrinia grandiflora and C. spectabilis are considered synonyms in several websites due to similar flowers but in reality they are so distinct that they are placed in two different genera now. They can be differentiated as below:

Calandrinia spectabilis Otto & A.Dietr.: Leaves 3-5 cm long, rhombic tp spathulate, light green,  inflorescence ca 60 cm tall, leaves and sepals with elongate unicellular hairs, sepals distinctly angular or keeled, capsules valves reflexed after dehiscence, margins involute. 

Cistanthe grandiflora (Lindl.) Schltdl. (syn: Calandrinia grandiflora Lindl.: Leaves 12-20 cm long, narrowly elliptic narrowed into broad petiole, with acute apex, ,  grey green, elongate hairs absent on leaves and sepals, sepals not distinctly keeled, capsule valves not reflexed after dehiscence, margins not involute.

Looking at sepals I would say Cistanthe grandiflora.

[Gurcharan Singh]

  Forwarding for ID 

Distributed as   Calandrinia spectabilis (USA- Cultivated)? 

It is difficult to confirm identification without leaves. Strangely Calandrinia grandiflora and C. spectabilis are considered synonyms in several websites due to similar flowers but in reality they are so distinct that they are placed in two different genera now. They can be differentiated as below:

Calandrinia spectabilis Otto & A.Dietr.: Leaves 3-5 cm long, rhombic tp spathulate, light green,  inflorescence ca 60 cm tall, leaves and sepals with elongate unicellular hairs, sepals distinctly angular or keeled, capsules valves reflexed after dehiscence, margins involute. 

Cistanthe grandiflora (Lindl.) Schltdl. (syn: Calandrinia grandiflora Lindl.: Leaves 12-20 cm long, narrowly elliptic narrowed into broad petiole, with acute apex, ,  grey green, elongate hairs absent on leaves and sepals, sepals not distinctly keeled, capsule valves not reflexed after dehiscence, margins not involute.

Looking at sepals I would say Cistanthe grandiflora.

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Subject: Garden Flowers For ID : Purple : California : 13DEC14 : AK-40
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[Aarti S. Khale]

Gurcharan Ji,

Thanks for the details between the two different plants and the final id.

Regards,

Aarti

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Aarti ji

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