Can anyone help me to identify this, please?

Hi All,

Unfortunately I only have one photo of this plant that was growing on my allotment as I have given the allotment up now. It looks incredibly familiar but I just can't think what it is! I took the photo just as the flowers were opening. Couldn't be Tanacetum parthenium (Feverfew) at the early flowering stage, could it?

Thanks,

Nick

 

Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) perhaps.

 

Thanks @shiney and @mazambo.

Yes, the foliage looks very similar to Feverfew which is what makes me think that's what it is. But like you I have only ever seen it with a yellow centre! You're right about the multi-petalled types, there is still a little touch of yellow there with the ones I've seen, I just wondered if there might be a cultivar that is almost pure white, especially at the early stage of the flower forming! Also, brown stalks on Feverfew? I though they were green! Totally confused by this one!

@Silver surfer Can I have your thoughts on this plant, please? It's been niggling me for months now!

Nick

 

This on ebay looks similar.

 

What is interesting is mystery flower has notched petals...see petal bottom left.

edit see this...found similar notch...
Photo of the bloom of Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium 'Flore Pleno')

Sorry not to be more helpful.








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If it's feverfew it should have that distinctive smell.

 

Photographs of my double and single feverfew flowers. Feverfews are a kind of chrysanthemum, alternatively named chrysanthemum, and your flower has the same kind of leaves, so my guess is some kind of chrysanthemum. I don't know much about chrysanthemums, have never grown them, and I associate them with guys who grow huge ones for flower shows, but there must be a lot of different kinds of them.

My double feverfew flowers are second generation, from some seeds I grew last year that had a mix of single and double, so my double ones might not have as high a petal count as those that came up last year in the first generation.

I just found the alternative naming of Feverfew, in the Chiltern Seeds catalogue. Its Latin name is Tanacetum parthenium (syn. Matricaria capensis and Chrysanthemum parthenium)

 

@groundbeetle Thanks, I think it must be a double Feverfew or something very closely related to it, especially considering how similar the petals are! I didn't even realise you could get double feverfews and the high number of petals on the one at my old allotment would indicate one of those!

Nick