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Can you help identify a plant

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BlackboardMonitorVimes · 12/04/2022 19:53

Can anyone identify this plant, seen in southern Spain recently.

Can you help identify a plant
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MereDintofPandiculation · 13/04/2022 10:07

That looks parasitic, very like the toothworts but they all seem to be in shades of purple. Broomrapes can have yellow tones. Yours looks too yellow for Common Broomrape, but Yellow Broomrape is a plant of mountains in Austria etc. So googling Orobanchaceae yellow led me to a genus of desert plants Cistanche, at least one of which, Cistanche phelypaea, finds its way into the SW Iberian peninsula.

So all Id really be prepared to say is it’s a parasitic plant in the family Orobanchaceae.

BlackboardMonitorVimes · 13/04/2022 22:27

Thank you!

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GlitterSquid · 13/04/2022 22:30

My plant app says this:-

Can you help identify a plant
MereDintofPandiculation · 14/04/2022 14:09

Remember plant apps really only give a starting point, not a definitive answer.

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