Hi all! I was stretching my legs down the street when i saw this little version of the Cape sorrel insomma long story short, it was a hell different than the normal one and i think it's more adapted to heat because it's still in flower. I hope it doesn't spread.
I don't know perhaps it's due to the lack of nutrients or water that made this plant different but i think i saw more than one of these.
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Cape sorrel. The new version?
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Cape sorrel. The new version?
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- The flowers are smaller and the stalks are different in colour (even the leaves).
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- The leaves are more hairy and little and more close to each other.
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sorry oops i perhaps should have posted this in the id section.
Wow call me an idiot but i thought there was only one species of the oxalis in here apart from the ornamental one (the one with pinkish flowers)
Interesting and thanks very much
Wow call me an idiot but i thought there was only one species of the oxalis in here apart from the ornamental one (the one with pinkish flowers)
Interesting and thanks very much
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And if it is mostly erect instead creeping, than it is the very rare Oxalis fontana featured on the website, however from the dark leaves it should be the frequent Oxalis corniculata.
Talking about Oxalsi I have found 2 forms of Oxalis pes-caprae, one having a pale yellow colour ans smaller and another with 2 rows of petals !!! Photos still not ready. I have reported the first one about a year ago.
Talking about Oxalsi I have found 2 forms of Oxalis pes-caprae, one having a pale yellow colour ans smaller and another with 2 rows of petals !!! Photos still not ready. I have reported the first one about a year ago.
More interesting would be the finding of Oxalis fontana, same habitat as O. corniculata but much rare. Another beautiful Oxalis is O. debilis with purple flowers and not invasive in our islands as their Cape sister, a garden escape in towns and old rural paths, but now it disappeared from such sites. Once I found one at Naxxar and managed to propagate it, but few years later I forgot dry for an entire Summer and passed away RIP!
