Requests about identification of wild plants in Malta and Gozo. (Please include precise details and pictures to help the experts in their ID process)
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by IL-PINE » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:37 pm
Which Rumex is this? pulcher or obtusifolius or none of them!?
thanks
Started to identify this genus....
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by IL-PINE » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:39 pm
Sorry. I forgot to include one with my fingers!

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by IL-PINE » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:49 pm
any ideas
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by MWP admin » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:55 am
I haven't time to delve deep into this but from Haslam, R. pulcher would fit. Additionally, 'obtusifolius' means wide leaf and using visual logic, (not botanical evaluation) the leavs do not look very wide. We wait the experts...
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by IL-PINE » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:49 am
I think you are right, sir MWP!
However, we await the experts!
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by MWP admin » Thu May 08, 2008 4:17 pm
I have found a plant like yours but the teeth were less than 1mm while yours look longer... do you confirm? Saying so becasue flora europae divides two bulky groups of Rumex from the length of the teeth of the valves.
My specimen is also under investigation, but on the first round it is neither R.pulcher nor R.obtusifolius

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by IL-PINE » Fri May 09, 2008 7:25 am
well yes they were more than 1mm in size (exactly no idea but).
however I still need to re-examine my Rumex species.
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by MWP admin » Fri May 09, 2008 11:56 am
My specimen is Rumex cristatus, though I have to check other floras to be sure. Yours could be the same apart from the hypothetical R. pulcher.
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by jackpot » Tue May 13, 2008 12:21 pm
difficult, but
Rumex is confirmirable ...
