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Old 05-10-2014, 09:19 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Identification

Hi there. I'm not expert either but this reminds me an Orinoco too.

However, this may be some variant or mutation of Orinoco. Plants which remind very closely what is called "Orinoco" in the USA, seems to be pretty widespread in the hotter areas of mediterranean basin which were islamic. Here in Italy we have a clone which somehow seems to resemble an Orinoco and grows mainly in Sicily which is called "Comune di Sicilia". I would suggest you to avoid calling it a downright Orinoco, because this wild plant may differ from USA/micropropagated Orinoco for some unobvious key feature and keeping it distinct (expecially if it is a wild plant from spain) can be important. Maybe it is more (or less) cold resistant, or maybe it more resistant/suscetible at some disease.
So best advice can be "treat it like an Orinoco and call it <>".
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