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Dorstenia Moraceae

Posted by Dutchie S.E.QLD (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 26, 04 at 6:36

I had an unusual plant come up in my shade house. It has beautiful dark green leaves and strange button like flowers. I took it to a guy who is the curator of a Botanical garden and he told me it was the above name and he thought the common name was mattress plant. I put both in the search engine and nothing come up.Has anyone heard of this plant? I don't know how to enter a photo here.


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RE: Dorstenia Moraceae

Its probably Dorstenia foetida , Moraceae is the Family , like Araceae (for Aroids) , those curators always so technical !!

Here is a link that might be useful: this is it I think


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RE: Dorstenia Moraceae

Diny
I looked it up but no pictures of it to see if it is the one you have. Come over and have a cuppa and we can go througth my other books

Marilyn


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RE: Dorstenia Moraceae

Dorstenia came up as a volunteer in my nursery. It LOVES water and seeds freely in the right spot. I planted it out in a drier spot and it promptly croaked.

Jerry


 
 

 

 


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