13-05-2019, 08:32 PM
I actually have Silene vulgaris (Silene inflata) as an alternate ID for this plant but I never blogged about it because the leaves are completely wrong and the capsule is the wrong shape, and the number of lobes (which are also carefully drawn) is wrong.
Silene leaves are in pairs, up the stem. The VMS illustrator gave quite a bit of care and attention to leaf shapes and leaf arrangements (and even to leaf margins). So this kind of leaf (Silene) doesn't seem to match well:
Silene leaves are in pairs, up the stem. The VMS illustrator gave quite a bit of care and attention to leaf shapes and leaf arrangements (and even to leaf margins). So this kind of leaf (Silene) doesn't seem to match well:
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