{"id":5783,"date":"2014-01-04T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2013-12-29T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:48:26","slug":"phyteuma-or-physoplexis-comosum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/phyteuma-or-physoplexis-comosum\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyteuma or Physoplexis comosum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 plants with a high Ph count not ph.<br \/>\n<a title=\"physoplexis cosoma \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4282115837\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2777\/4282115837_aae82f3773.jpg\" alt=\"physoplexis cosoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phyteuma comosum also named Physoplexis comosum is a member of the Campanula family. Rosettes are produced on a fat and fleshy root stock to produce coarsely toothed pointed leaves. In June or July clusters of club like flowers in Lilac to deep Purple give Physoplexis Cosoma it&#8217;s <strong>common name Devil&#8217;s Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Gardeners Tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Grows best in deep very well drained\u00c2\u00a0 limey soil.<\/li>\n<li>Needs to be protected from slugs who seem to savour the fleshy parts of the plant.<\/li>\n<li>Phyteuma comosum loves damp and cool soils therefore\u00c2\u00a0water it frequently in all seasons.<\/li>\n<li>The Physoplexis comosa should be grown in a bright place, with direct sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>This hardy, perennial with an RHS Award benefits from some frost protection.<\/li>\n<li>Great as an alpine plant &#8211; it should be as the family comes from the Alps.<\/li>\n<li>Comosum means with hairy tufts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Phyteuma comosum \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7a\/Physoplexis_comosa_Orchi_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Other Phyteuma<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Phyteuma hemisphaericum<\/strong> from Spain the green grass like foliage bears short stems which carry clear blue flowers arranged in a spherical shape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phyteuma orbiculare<\/strong> has round heads of blue flowers surrounded by bracts on foot high stems. The leaves are lance shaped and can also be slightly purple like Phyteuma comosum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phyteuma pauciflorum<\/strong> few flowers but 5-7 at a time in darl blue with violet edges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phyteuma Scheuchzeri <\/strong> produces globes of bright blue flowers on slender stems. Masses of these flowers were once quite common in the Alps.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 plants with a high Ph count not ph. Phyteuma comosum also named Physoplexis comosum is a member of the Campanula family. Rosettes are produced on a fat and fleshy root stock to produce coarsely toothed pointed leaves. In June or July clusters of club like flowers in Lilac to deep Purple give Physoplexis Cosoma it&#8217;s common name Devil&#8217;s Club. Gardeners Tips Grows best in deep very well drained\u00c2\u00a0 limey soil. Needs to be protected from slugs who seem to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/phyteuma-or-physoplexis-comosum\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}