species for foliage

There so many mgs with splendid foliage. We get transfixed with mug shots of new and interesting flower photos, but we need to stop somtimes and smell the foliage too. (well, I thought that was funny) I am a foliage person, because, we spend so much time anticipating the bloom season, when the foliage is right in front of us. This winter I have selected species with very interesting foliage. It seems that we ought to make good foliage shots an important ingrediant of the plant files. We seldom give the foliage its day in the sun so to speak, so here goes, showing the beginning of my foliage choices for this year.

These seedlings are a month old and the vines were around 2', and frequently branching. The gigantic lable is the result of collasal underplanning in former fotos that caused a lot of confusion. To appreciate the foliage please enlarge.
Frank

This message was edited May 2, 2007 4:13 PM

Please be patient. I am trying to give you images that have not been Jpegged. This takes 6 times as long, an much more patience. Next time I take pix, I think I will put a row of garbage cans in the background to test your attention span, rather than a wrecked car. Please enlarge to read the label. Frank

Hi Frank,

Thanks for posting your photos...

There seems to be a labeling error on the first plant here
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/fchilders_1178070985_417.jpg
as Turbina corymbosa has elongated cordate leaves and is not known to occur with a palmate leaf form
Here is Turbina corymbosa in the PlantFiles
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/93468/

The first image looks like Ipomoea wrightii to me as shown in the PlantFiles here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/119105/

The second photo does indeed look like Merremia dissecta as pictured in the PlantFiles here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/53476/index.html
although the addition of the synonym of Ipomoea digitata may be beyond the usual synonyms listed for M.dissecta


Thanks for posting your photos...

TTY,...

Ron

I agree with you Frank. The foilage is the most important. It feeds the plant,gives it lfe plus we have to have something pretty to look at while we wait for flowers!

You're right about the foliage, I've got some really neat looking leaves too on some of the species from Ron. I think that the pretty foliage is what is keeping me sane..lol while I wait for flowers.

Thank you Ron for the correction. Now that I have quit boiling, and I can post with a civil tongue, I feel better. I posted true to the label, but you know what happens sometimes. At least , as it finally turns out to be one at the top of my foliage list.

Thank you Ladies.

I certainly have much more respect now for those who post pictures all the time. It is actual work. What was funny, was that the preview page kept expiring while the 6 megapixel image took forever to up load.lol
I banged my head a lot before I figured that out. Frank

I'm a foliage fan also, Frank! I've been collecting various Ipomoea nil mutations that modify the foliage...shape, size, color, variegation, substance, texture, etc... The neat thing is that they also often modify the flower form. I have learned that there certainly is more to appreciate about these plants than their beautiful blooms!

Keep posting those pictures! It gets easier!

Here is one of my favorites from last year, showing four colors of variegation and asymetrical shape caused by differential growth from the degrees of variegation. I've got 10 plants this year from seed of this plant to determine its repeatability...

Arlan

I have only one word for that Arlan... WOW

Arlan, when I saw this and enlarged it, I literally got goosebumps.
Don't you just love high resolution, with a subject like this. Showstopping beauty, for the people, like us in Oregon, with a 75 day outside blooming season.

That picture needs to go into the plant files.
Please post some more right here or start a thread. The plant files needs better pics of the foliage. We need more macro shots

By the way what is the name of the plant with this leaf?

MORE, MORE, MORE....................... Frank

Arlan. That is truly stunning. I would like to know the name too.

The plant described here, http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3456787 , presently has only a number, 385-160-22. It is a direct descendant of a hybrid plant (322-125-01) whose seed parent was Q0777 ( like Beni Chidori) and pollen parent was a variegated leaf, pink blizzard large flowered plant.

The siblings of 385-160-22 showed great variation in leaf shapes and sizes, many of them very small like the Beni Chidori, Cameo Elegance, Minibar Rose complex. They really started my interest in the possibilities of this type of plants.

Here is a picture showing more of this plant, including its flowers. It generally had a small stature.

Here is a series of leaf pictures of siblings to 385-160-22...unfortunately none of the following produced any seed for me before being consumed by heat and rust in late September.

285-160-30

285-160-31, suffering heavily from rust.

385-160-19 - looks very similar to the complex

385-160-28 - looks a lot like 385-160-30

...a change of pace! - Arlan