Monday, January 30, 2012

What the name for the flower/plant also known as "bride's bouquet"?

I've been reading LM Montgomery, where she refers to a garden flower (or possibly flowering shrub) as "bride's bouquet".



I can't find it on the Internet ... does anyone know what plant she means?



The novel was published during the 1930s.
What the name for the flower/plant also known as "bride's bouquet"?
Porana paniculata (Bridal Bouquet, Christ Vine, Snow Creeper, Snow-in-the-Jungle, White Corallita): Liane to 9m. Lvs cordate, to 15 cm, slender-acuminate, white-pubesc. beneath. Pan. large, pendulous; flowers to 8mm, white, tubular-campanulate. Summer. N India, Upper Burm.



Porana: In the Convolvulaceae family. 20 slender, twining herbs or shrubs. Flowers small, in term. pan. or cymes or solitary, 1 or more sep. enlarged; tubular-campanulate to funnelform, lobes broad, spreading, plicate. Trop. Asia, Aus. Z10.



Sorry for the scientific description it came out of my botanical book! Here's a link for a picture, scroll down to Convolvulaceae and find Porana: http://www.virtualherbarium.org/gl/famtm...



Hope this helps! (P.S. I've read the "Anne" and "Emily" books!) :)
Reply:I will agree with Baby's Breath. You can grow it from seed.
Reply:My guess is that it is some kind of spiraea. Bridal Wreath.
Reply:Try Pavetta lanceolata called the Brides Bush here in RSA .. Hope this helps.
Reply:small and different clumps of roses.
Reply:I know 'baby's breath' is always in bouquets. it's small white flowers. maybe that's it. does it describe the flower at all?
Reply:Crassula hybrid 'Bride Bouquet' 'Polly's Pink' 'Spring Time' is part of this complex.

'Brides Bouquet' will have a rough sandpaper keel. (the underside of the leaf) and I believe Crassula rupestris is one of the parents, no parents named it is a Dick Wright hybrid.

All three came from the same heritage, and there is a slight difference.

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