Gozitan guest in Cologne

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:42 am

One of the plants from Gozo produces those things after a rainy and cold August .

Post by **MWP admin** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:42 pm

What you mean rainy and cold august? I never experienced such an August on Maltese Islands!! Fist fire: is it Araceae or Rosaceae ?

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:50 pm

This plant lives now in my courtyard in Cologne and here this year the summer happend in about 20 days of July.
Like You I try to make them grow out of seed or small layers and sometimes I have good luck.
But it is neither a Rosacea nor Aracea.

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:44 pm

Very difficult- is it really a fruit?

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:56 pm

I think so; normally it is a multiple fruit, but this spezial plant has only one at each centre; and it changes colour when ripe.

Post by **MWP admin** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:30 pm

Confused now - I believed that the central, column-like structure is the receptacles (sort of) to which fruit is attached to, and the globular structure is the fruit. Each 'socket' represents to a missing or fell off fruit and usually the whole structure is a set of balls (fruit) around the column.

IL-PINE · Post by **IL-PINE** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:42 pm

looks like a fungus!

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:15 pm

Try to explain better: Normally the infructessence has several stonefruits like Blackberries, but - might be in cause of the bad weather - this one had the same number of flowers like usual, but got only one fruit at every axis.
No fungus.

Post by **MWP admin** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:32 pm

What can we bart for a pic of the flower?!

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:22 pm

I offer You a leaf. OK?

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:02 pm

am I right that it belongs to a pretty progressive family (at the end of the plant sytem?)

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:29 pm

If I knew, what is nowadays the end of the plant-system!!!
In Your books the Asteraceae, but very often the Orchidaceae.
This one is none of both.

Sdravko · Post by **Sdravko** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:49 am

im impressed that you can grow that plant in a German garden. no wonder it produces only one fruit. in Malta it has far too many.

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:30 pm

That`s correct; I found in a book, that there are severeal countries, where it is forbidden, to plant it in cause of this fertility.

Sdravko · Post by **Sdravko** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:10 pm

well, in Malta its not highly invasive but still far from harmless. do you grow it in a pot?

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:37 pm

Yes. And in winter it lives in a light, unheated room together with Oleander and so on.

IL-PINE · Post by **IL-PINE** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:34 pm

Is it Lantana? boq

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:23 pm

Super!!! According to my old books: Lantana camara.
What means boq?

IL-PINE · Post by **IL-PINE** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:33 pm

WoW!

boq - means well, I don't know!

greenhorn · Post by **greenhorn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:52 pm

Thanks!!! I`ll try, to keep it in mind!

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:10 pm

hallo greenhorn:
If I knew, what is nowadays the end of the plant-system!!!
In Your books the Asteraceae, but very often the Orchidaceae.
This one is none of both.
certainly none of both- but my idea was first an Apiaceae- of corse the Verbenatscheas (hi MWP ) with Lantana are not as close to the end...

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:12 pm

hupps, something wrong with the outfit of my letters- sorry

Post by **MWP admin** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:42 pm

Sdravko wrote:im impressed that you can grow that plant in a German garden. no wonder it produces only one fruit. in Malta it has far too many.

Posting an example of what the real infructescence looks. Specimen from Malta, 30Sep-2006. When ripe they turn Black.

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:12 pm

MWP: are you colour-blind? This is not black but green!
I show you how black looks like

Post by **MWP admin** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:48 pm

That's dark glossy blue not true black

This is true black:

PS: I said that when the fruit are ripe they turn black!

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:31 pm

Post by **MWP admin** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:26 am

Welcome back... Hope you had a nice week !!

jackpot · Post by **jackpot** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:19 am

yes, Tenerife is bautiful- after 15 Malta visits within the last 4 years I am always surprised how clean islands may be