Another request for identification

This is yet another flower of which I would like for someone to name for me. I photographed it at the Botanical Gardens in Vancouver in 2006.

 

Which botanical gardens? VanDusen?

 

All I can tell you is that it was at a huge public park.

 

Oh, it was Queen Elizabeth Park.

 

Correction - it was Stanley Park. Sorry.

 

These Malvaceae flowers can be very difficult to place. There are many plants with similar flowers in that family. Someone may know this one, but a photo of the rest of the plant would help.

 

This is the best I can do. I mostly frame my pictures to just include the bloom.

 

Lavatera trimestris.

 

Thank you very much. Is it also known by a common name?

 

You do take lovely pictures, and your decision to frame them to include just the bloom obviously produces striking images. What has been suggested to other plant photographers who've come here with similar requests and similarly lovely photos is to take an additional image - assuming you're working with digital so it's not a waste of film - of the whole plant and/or its leaves for identification purposes.

 

I will follow your sage advice from now on. I do shoot digital but I find that it doesn't record the red spectrum as well as E6 film. However it wouldn't hurt to take at least one good exposure calculated shot of the whole plant with slide film. I live in South Carolina so jaunting over to the botanical gardens is not as much as an option for me. However, I have a body of work taken in various locals that I need to have identified. May we keep in touch in regards to that? I have to have the E6 film scanned to a digital medium and that will cost, so if you are interested in plant identification for me please plan on a wait.

 

I contacted Stanley Park. They are not entirely sure about the ID, but Lavatera trimestris 'Silver Cup' is on their annual planting list.

 

I replied that you could contact me through this site ("the site") and now it's not here. Don't know why it would've been pulled, site provides contact information and functions for that very purpose.

Minutes later: D'oh! Wrong thread.

 

I can tell you that this flower was not close to the ground - I remember taking it straight on from a standing position and I might have crouched a little, so it could be a bloom on a bush sized plant. Would that info provide a clue to it's ID?

 

Well, I'm certain it's Lavatera trimestris - a fairly common plant I have known for years. Try looking at some Google Images.

 

Thanks very much. I've spent years taking pictures of flowers among other things and now I want to put names to them retroactively. Nothing like doing things the hard way.

 

You can just keep adding photos to this thread for ID, rather than starting a new thread for each photo.