To identify plants at UBC botanical garden

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  1. Nadia White Rock

    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    I have question to identify plants at UBC botanical garden. I am sure some people have the same questions. Thank you in advance.

    1. Next to the entrance, big tree, prepared to bloom or fater blooming, some berries on second pictures. I am thinking about some Rhus sp with such big pinnately compound leaves, fruit suspicious?
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    2.Wendy and me wonder what plant or grass with such nice distinguished leaves, in Asian garden
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    3.A violet flower in Alpine garden
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    4. Looks like some clover?
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Possibly Meliosma for the first. I've grown the last myself but the name is evading me at the moment.
     
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    I was thinking about this tree as Meliosma, but we found Meliosma(maybe another sp.) with simple leaves in the same area, so I am confused, what this one is.
     

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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Try Googling the genus name.
     
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    I would do usually googling and guessing, googling Meliosma brings up very little except a list of names, most of which have no pages. These plants are from garden, I am sure the staff knows names of plants in the garden(if I ask directly, I have usually answer), maybe some of them go to the forum.
     
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    Nadia is still looking for an ID for tree #1, so I'm attaching more photos. Leaflets increase in size toward the tip.

    It's right behind the Sorbus yuana near the garden entrance.

    She thinks Rhus, but didn't recognize the fruits. Could it be Rhus lancea?
     

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    Eric La Fountaine Contributor Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    The tree is Meliosma veitchiorum. It has lost its label, so you would not have found that.

    I don't know what the white flowered plant is. Where is that?
     
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    White flowered plant was in June in Alpine garden
     
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    And we looked for it yesterday but didn't figure out where exactly it was (i.e., we didn't find it).
     
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    Eric La Fountaine Contributor Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Douglas says it's Dorycnium hirsutum. I'll see about a label for it.
     
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    Yeah, that's it. Couldn't remember. I used to have one along the driveway here.
     
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Good, we have answers for everything
     
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    We're so lucky - there's hardly anyone who can say that!
     

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