A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Evening bloomer , but what is it ???

Hello all .
I have this plant , which comes back bigger and bigger each year , which my mother gave me , I believe from either Peurto Rico or Miami . It has new blooms growing each day , and they bloom every day about an hour after dusk , and the blooms die every morning , growing yet more bloomers . It seems to bloom like this from late May till almost deep September .
If you need further pics , I will gladly produce .
Thanx in advance , "Walt" :ghttp:

Hi Walt...welcome to the forum. Great picture of what appears to be an Evening Primrose, Oenothera Biennis.

HHmmm.... Just looked at photo's of the Evening Primrose , not it hun . I will take a pic of the whol plant and show ..

I thought evening primrose too. I thinks we need to see the foliage.

i agree .............I have the evening primrose, yellow and it pulls the same caper nitely........Bloom tonite and die 2maro..ha ha

dodge

There is sometimes 1 bloom , sometimes up to 6 on the 1 plant . This particular plant is 4 years old , and only about 6 inches tall , and about 18 inches around .
Here is a succesion of pics caught blooming , with foliage ..

second 1 , just starting to open....

third ... mid-point of bloom ...

and last 1 ..
Hope I am not boring anyone , just want to find out for sure what plant this is , so I can try to achieve another ..

Great pictures of a pretty little plant. I'm really curious now to know what it is and will it grow here...lol!

Very interesting little plant you've got there. The leaves look like gazania a bit, the flower looks like evening primrose, the spent blossom reminds me of hibiscus. This is a good mystery.

Are all the flowers yellow? Some of those look pinky-peach, but I didn't know if that's just the look of the spent blossom or what?

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Here is my Primrose if it shows..
Snapfish is irresponsible.

dodge................here

Here it is in Large..

I hope
Can't snap this snapfish.;o)
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dodge tries again.

papita

Ummmmmmmmmm

WHy is it so small? Mine gets 6 foot tall..
Maybe it is some other type of primrose??

Wish I could find the bag.

dodge

Good ID, papito...I got it half right.

Rosie

That is the color of the spent blooms . Today , there is 4 blooms coming out .
It is supposedly some kind of moon flower , and all the blooms are yellow .
I really would like to get another , but have had no luck with what it is . I tried to get moon-flowers , but they were very different , much taller , and nothing like this ...

You must have missed Papito's post with the ID of your plant, Radd-Dad...

Oenothera missouriensis, a shorter Evening Primrose.

Rosie

I didnt miss, I dont think it is the same one. It is short mine is tall.??????


Beats me if it is the same..

dodge