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GeorgeMac

Sutherland

• Jun 19, 2020

• #1

Mr Google isn't helping at all with this one. Growing wild at Brora Railway Station, so probably planted a long time ago.

 

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dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jun 19, 2020

• #2

Lupin?

 

Gill Osborne

Well-known member

• Jun 19, 2020

• #3

Yes....common garden lupin...lovely plants :t:

 

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GeorgeMac

Sutherland

• Jun 19, 2020

• #4

Yes Lupins, thanks. Mr Google was trying to tell me they were Hyacinths or Bluebonnets.

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jun 19, 2020

• #5

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Jun 19, 2020

• #6

GeorgeMac said:

Yes Lupins, thanks. Mr Google was trying to tell me they were Hyacinths or Bluebonnets.

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Bluebonnets are a type of wild lupin that grow in the US.

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Jun 19, 2020

• #7

aeshna5 said:

Bluebonnets are a type of wild lupin that grow in the US.

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Bluebonnet is Lupinus texensis, from (yes, you guessed!) Texas - doesn't grow well in UK.

Yours is a cultivar of probably Lupinus nootkatensis - that's the species most lupins in UK derive from (from southeastern Alaska, the lupin best adapted to our climate), though some garden cultivars are hybrids too.

Edit: forgot, also quite a lot in UK derive from Lupinus polyphyllus (another western N American species closely related to L. nootkatensis)

 

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GeorgeMac

Sutherland

• Jun 19, 2020

• #8

It always astonishes me how knowledgeable folks here really are. I guess we have some world class authorities here.