I D please.

Even people don't need a passport to go from Scotland to England, and vice versa!! This poor leaf is now on its way back home to England!

 

I'm with pete on this, I can't find another plant with this distinctive leaf configuration and shrub shape as well.

 

Dendy, when you said POST IT, I thought you meant post it, (on here) not POST IT.
Thanks for the back up Liz :D

 

I'm with both of you on the leaf configuration, Liz and Pete - but, the leaf(let) doesn't seem to fit, and neither does the size. No, I literally meant bung it in the post!! And it's on its way! A much-travelled leaf! It's already been photographed every which way, so I don't see any advantage in doing that, but since you have the piptanthus, Pete, a photo of it, plus this leaf, and your slipper would convince me 100%!!

 

I wait in anticipation. :D

 

Quote from Paladin:

.......Also my pic shows the leaves very glossy when in fact they are not, and have the texture of a nettle...very,slightly hairy!.The underside is not white..just a paler shade of green.
This fits the description of piptanthus nepalense in my RHS book to a whisker(!)

 

let's get Pete to post the leaf to you as well Liz - it'll maybe in a bit of a sorry state by then, of course! I'm happy to be convinced! Honestly....

 

I have leaves here people...just ask!

 

leave some of them on the poor plant, Paladin! It's suffered enough without us all wanting bits of it!! :D

 

Right then, here we go, got said leaf today dendy. (is that good english?) :D


First of all thats not a leaf, its a leaflet, the leaves are in threes. Its getting a bit battered by now, lets face it, its been around a bit, but the underside especially looks similar I think.

This is two of the flower buds, and just for good measure I have included the No 9s

[ 01. April 2006, 05:00 PM: Message edited by: pete2255 ]

 

I have a feeling that it is an Azalia! not a rose

 

Pete as said before, in respect of the first picture I think your right from the pictures of both plant and leaf - Piptanthus. The similaries are many.

As said before, I think the second is an azaelia - certainly one of the rhodo family.

 

Yes, I also think pic no2 is something like rhodo or azalea, but I'm not sure on that one.
I'd like to see some new growth on that first, but then I dont grow many of them to make a comparison with.

 

You have been busy Pete! :D
Leaf looks familiar
So.. is that a positive ID then?

 

I'm convinced!!! Yup, I believe in the piptanthus! And I think we're all agreed on the azalea for the second one, and have been for ages! :D