Can anyone identify this plant please

Is anyone able to identify this plant, it was in a display at the Melbourne Flower & Garden Show this week, the reddish leaves don't necessarily belong to the green balls,

Yvonne

 

Just a wild guess! Flower arrangers are very clever with pins and wires. The stalk of your "flowers" look very like a carnation with the opposite leaves that curl down... could it be that they have pinned something else on top. Could it be a species of moss pinned into a carnation stem? If so, it has been very skillfully done. But I cannot think of any flower with that structure of "petals" See the nearest I could find .....

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...rslawn.com+mosses+in+lawns&ndsp=18&hl=en&um=1

 

Thanks Silver Surfer,

that does look similar, ...... I wondered if it was the seed head of a flower that they may have dyed, but it looked to soft & delicate, ...... also in the same display they had Echinacia with the petals removed, so they looked a different species also, so they used a few tricks in the display.

Yvonne

 

Dianthus barbatus 'Green Trick': http://www.flora.nl/nl/OverFloraHolland/Pers/2008%5CPages%5CNieuwDianthusbarbatusGreenTrick.aspx

 

Thanks Lila, that was really bugging me. At least I had the right family with the carnation type leaves! I tried googling "Carnation green" with no luck... putting in "Dianthus green" and up it pops!!! Mystery solved!!!

 

Thanks so much for that Lila, :)

I also did a 'Google' & found more information on it in another forum, which states it is a very new plant,

Yvonne


http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/flower-mill/green-flower-i-d-please_22557.html