I've seen a beautiful plant around college and have no idea what it is (I don't have a garden, but I'd like to find pictures of it to brighten my room and computer.) It has thin stems and, notably, these translucent circular leaves/pods with a silvery sheen. Does anyone know what it might be?
2006-10-13 01:36:49 · 24 answers · asked by silverstar1809 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I think it might be honesty it goes transparent when its dead!
2006-10-13 01:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by charlie a 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start working your way through an the Royal Horticultural Society's Illustrated Garden Plant Encyclopedia. You'll soon find it.
2006-10-13 02:38:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like the seed pods of a plant called Honesty. Does a film come off both sides of the seed pods if you pull it gently.
2006-10-13 04:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by gardener101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like Honesty. In the spring/summer time the sead pods are green, and later in the year they turn a pale silvery colour.
2006-10-13 01:47:03 · answer #4 · answered by k 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's also known as a money plant, because the silvery part is supposed to resemble silver dollars.
2006-10-13 03:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by BVC_asst 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the silver dollar plants or honesty plants my mother used to have, I cannot be sure though.
Take a look here and see if this is what you are thinking of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_honesty
2006-10-13 02:39:53 · answer #6 · answered by Krispy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could try asking the college caretaker or gardener. Or maybe take one of your pictures to a garden centre/plant nursery and ask them.
2006-10-13 01:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by Little Jake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a money tree,where you carefully peal each side of the leaf and it ends up silver,used for flower arranging
2006-10-13 09:06:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MONEY PLANT Lunaria annua AKA Honesty
Is most definately what you are talking about. Below are a few links you for images.
2006-10-13 23:34:45 · answer #9 · answered by Rita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Honesty to me. It can be used as a dry decoration in houses.
2006-10-13 01:50:26 · answer #10 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the plant may be called Honesty.
2006-10-14 15:30:49 · answer #11 · answered by Sandee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋