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Please help ID a plant

  • 21-09-2014 12:53pm
    #1
    strandroad
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    I would like to get another one or two plants like this for another corner of the garden but I am not successful with cuttings and might need to buy them! Do you happen to know what they are? Looks like a jasmine relative of sorts?

    Flowers: IMG_20140920_113254~2~2.jpg

    Shrub: IMG_20140920_113306~2.jpg


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  • #2
    looksee
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    You are kinda right about the Jasmine, it is solanum jasminoides alba.
    .


  • #3
    strandroad
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    looksee wrote: »
    You are kinda right about the Jasmine, it is solanum jasminoides alba.
    .

    Thank you!!


  • #4
    Hostafairy
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    Solanum crispum " glasvein " has blue flower, album has the white flower . Poisonous berries


  • #5
    Wyldwood
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    "Glasnevin" is also very rampant so be sure you have the space for it before you buy. The white jasminoides is more manageable.


  • #6
    Skrynesaver
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    Wyldwood wrote: »
    "Glasnevin" is also very rampant so be sure you have the space for it before you buy. The white jasminoides is more manageable.

    By more manageable you mean it'll only smother half an acre a year ;), I had one in a garden in Dublin years ago, it must have found a cracked waste pipe, bloody thing was visible from space.

    Lovely plant, but you will find yourself hacking it back a bit every couple of years


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  • #7
    Day Lewin
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    It looks lovely in a large garden, drooping gracefully over a red-brick wall, say. [by way of example]

    But bear in mind, though the flowers look like jasmine, they have either no scent, or a faint potato-ey smell.


  • #8
    strandroad
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    It is a lively one indeed (the pics I posted are of an actual specimen we have in the other corner of the garden) but it seems that it can be tamed with minimal pruning. It flowers for months and months though!


  • #9
    The Garden Shop
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    Hello mhge

    This plant is also commonly called 'The Potato Vine'

    Great climber as it grows so fast and can reach height of about 6M
    Also it is semi evergreen so you have the benefit of some winter foliage too

    They are part of the potato family 'Solanaceae'
    Also in Purple 'Solanum Crispum' - this variety is a little bit hardier and more suited to the Midlands


  • #10
    monkeynuz
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    The Garden Shop wrote: »
    Hello mhge

    This plant is also commonly called 'The Potato Vine'

    Great climber as it grows so fast and can reach height of about 6M
    Also it is semi evergreen so you have the benefit of some winter foliage too

    They are part of the potato family 'Solanaceae'
    Also in Purple 'Solanum Crispum' - this variety is a little bit hardier and more suited to the Midlands

    Yes, potato/nightshade family. Solanum being the Latin for nightshade.


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