I have recently moved to a new location and have taken a lot of my plants with me. This one I have no recollection of planting and would like to know what it is. At the moment it is about 8 in tall and has leaves like a eunonymous but it has a lovely violet flower. It is more purple than the blue that shows in the photo. Can anyone identify it?
The leaves look broad enough to me to be Vinca major. Can you look at a leaf with a magnifying glass, and see if the margin is hairless (V. minor), or finely hairy (V. major). In the pic below, V. major lower left, V. minor above (scale in mm).
I thought the difference between the V.minor and V.major was just to do with leaf size! This site never ceases to amaze me. Thank you Michael for the tip.
Here's another picture. Compare leaf shapes and proportions to yours. There is also a size difference in the flowers of the two species. http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N
With a young plant, leaf size is not so reliable; shape is better, with V. minor broadest near the middle, and V. major broadest nearer the base. On that, your pic is again more like V. major. Variegated cultivars exist for both species.
Hey Guys. Please don't go down this road again , (like the Viola- pansy, jack in the pulpit debate.) You are both so incredibly knowledgeable, on so many levels and range of subjects, that I feel truly honoured to learn from you BOTH. At the end of the day does it really matter to Neverdun ,whether it is major or minor? I suspect he is pleased to know it is Vinca .....variegata. I REALLY hate it when you two go point scoring. Suspect I am not alone in feeling this. Luddite
That's not the objective, not for me anyway and probably not for him either. And at this point original poster should be able to figure out what it is using the information provided anyway.
