Think You Can Identify This Plant? No. 27 – November 2007

If you know the genus and coinage of this month ’s mystery plant , you could win a year ’s subscription toFine Gardening . If you ’re already a ratifier , we ’ll tote up a year onto your subscription .

Email usyour entry by December 1 , 2007 , with “ Mystery Plant # 27 – November ” in the subject line . Along with your guess , please admit your mailing address and your telephone issue . The winner will be opt at random from all right submission .

Last month’s winner

Last calendar month ’s whodunit plant was Jewels of Opar ( Talinum paniculatum ) . This tender perennial , ordinarily mature as an one-year , grows to 3 feet magniloquent and 2 invertebrate foot wide , and choose full Lord’s Day and well - drained territory . atomizer of small , starry pinkish flowers wave in the duck soup above stringy stems in summer , followed by the rosy burgundy source seedcase for which the plant is most prized . This plant self - sow freely , which can become a job in optimal conditions . The most popular cultivar of this industrial plant is ‘ Kingwood Gold ’ , whose rounded leaves are a rich atomic number 79 . Sandy Otto of Hutchinson , Minnesota , was chosen at random from all right entries to obtain a innocent one - year subscription to Fine horticulture . congratulation , Sandy !

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