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Please help me ID this plant....

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Pannacotta · 28/04/2010 16:58

I know that its a Chaenomeles, but the label states Pink Lady (I bought it before it started to flower) and when I have seen these before they had quite dark, rich pink flowers, whereas mine has pale pink flowers, with a touch of white and peach, from peach coloured buds.
Have put a photo on my profile, which I hope is clear enough...

TIA

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EricPicklesFatNeck · 28/04/2010 17:00

you don't appear to have a profile

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EricPicklesFatNeck · 28/04/2010 17:01

i have a delicious red one flower atm

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Uriel · 28/04/2010 17:02

Could be Geisha Girl.

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EricPicklesFatNeck · 28/04/2010 17:02

is it this?

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Pannacotta · 28/04/2010 17:23

Trying to sort out my profile now, back in a while...

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Pannacotta · 28/04/2010 17:27

Hope the profile is now sorted...
It doesn't look as peach as Geisha girl and perhaps less white than your pic Eric, is that Moerloosei?

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Uriel · 28/04/2010 17:31

My money's still on Geisha Girl.

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catinthehat2 · 28/04/2010 17:38

have a look at this guy's site.

He comments on the " Clusters of white, pink, orange, scarlet, or crimson cup shaped flowers 1 to 2 inches across, .. borne on spiny branches"

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Pannacotta · 28/04/2010 17:50

It has single flowers whereas Geisha Girl has double so am pretty sure its not that, also the flowers are pink rather than peach/apricot.

cat in your link he says the flowers are deep rosy pink and that Pink Lady is thornless.

Mine has pale pink flowers and thorns, so am pretty sure its not what I ordered...

I really wanted a deep pink to go with some nearby planting so will have to take it back to the nursery.

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Uriel · 28/04/2010 20:01

Well, as I can't convince you...
I should have looked out the window and checked my Geisha Girl.

Here it says Pink Lady has sharp spines.

Just to confuse!

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Uriel · 28/04/2010 20:28

Appleblossom?. The third picture down.

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Pannacotta · 28/04/2010 22:11

Uriel thanks for the links.
Sorry didnt mean to be so stubborn, just that I saw a Geisha Girl in flower at the garden centre at the weekend and it looked more peachy/apricot than mine but having googled again I am not so sure...

It could be Appleblossom which you linked to, but there isnt much white in the few flowers which are open.

And all the descriptions on-line seem to vary which makes it hard to know what's what...

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Uriel · 29/04/2010 21:09

No, you're right about Geisha Girl. The colour of yours isn't quite right for it, and I can't believe I forgot it's got double flowers.

You could take a small sprig back to the nursery and see what they make of it? It's irritating when you're trying for a particular look somewhere and the wrong colour pops up. A friend gave me a geranium which is blue in her garden and it turned into pink in mine!

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