Digitalis from San Francisco Bot garden

Satish Phadke

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Jun 29, 2011, 6:06:02 PM6/29/11

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Digitalis from San Francisco Bot garden.
These are some of the pictures of what I believe to be Digitalis purpurea cultivated and growing profusely in SF Bot garden.
Similar plants with that big inflorescence were as also spotted growing wild North to SF on way to Point Reyes.
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Dr Phadke

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Gurcharan Singh

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Jun 29, 2011, 9:22:35 PM6/29/11

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Yes Satish ji

Coincidentally a lot of plants grow here in Gulmarg here

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Ushadi micromini

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Jun 29, 2011, 11:25:56 PM6/29/11

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Yes, gorgeous... Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis this profusely flowering is hybridized....
not wild type...
wild type sets sparser flowers... (seen in English countrysides, in
hedges...)

This heavy flowering cultivar has escaped and is seen thoughout SW
USA,
and in the Northeastern states...
however slowly the numbers of flowers and their size decrease... to a
few per spike...
NOT a matter of fertilizer.. because even in heavily manured parts of
summer gardens
some volunteers come up year after year and show lesser and lesser
flowers...

Usha di...
PS DID YOU GET TO SEE OTHER COLORS ????

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Alok

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Jul 1, 2011, 2:19:16 AM7/1/11

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We also have it in plenty out here in Dalhousie.. and there are two
varieties..
Digitalis purpurea and Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora (White/
creamish)
Alok

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