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Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 16:02
| This plant is in my friends flower bed. I have seen it before but can't think of the name. Hope someone her can help. It has small flower on it. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 16:33
| Agreed, a Commelina. With what looks like a severe case of ...spider mites? |
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| there are no bugs on this. I will try to get a different picture. |
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| This one shows the leaves better. |
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| Sure looks infested with something, mites, thrip or lacebug. |
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| I'm sorry I ever posted these pictures. There are no bugs on these plants. Those spots are the leaves. How do you delete posts!!! |
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| We're not picking on you, Mites and Thrip are nearly microscopic. Take a quick look at the link below. That plant should be deep even green colored not stippled. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Thrips
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| I'm sorry I ever posted these pictures. There are no bugs on these plants. Those spots are the leaves. How do you delete posts!!! |
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| This picture taken a few minutes ago. |
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| The leaves are not a even green color, they are stippled or spotted. This is cloose up of leaf after it was wiped off. |
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| Bugs have been sucking on the leaves. The stippling is from damage done to the leaf tissue. As said before, Thrips and Mites are so tiny. They can do damage and you will never see them doing it. Remy |
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| Piperxxxx, there are 5 Day-flower species scattered across east Texas. Commelina communis has 2 blue petals and 1 white petal, plus false anthers that are yellow with a brownish center. You can easily see the brown spots under magnification. C. erecta has 2 blue petals and 1 white petal, but is without the brownish centers in the false anthers. C. caroliniana is a sprawling plant with 3 dark blue petals, and spathes (the structure the flowers arise from) having a straight edge along the bottom, and those edges separated to the base. C. virginica is a large, upright plant that has 3 blue petals, and spathes that have margins fused to the base. C. diffusa has very small flowers with 3 blue petals, spathes with margins separated to the base, and those spathes having distinctly curved bottom margins. Since the leaves and flowers appear to be very small in your photos, your plant may be C. diffusa. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Spreading Day-flower
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| I'm no expert, but I've battled my fair share of spider mites and I think the leaves look naturally streaked (particularly in the second picture posted). |
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| "Stippling" and "spotting" are the exact words to describe the damage from certain piercing/sucking critters. They suck the green chloroplasts right out of the plant cells. |
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| piper~Perhaps your friend noticed whether or not the plant emerged with plain green leaves? |
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