Help with identification? EDIT: Kerria japonica

[eller]

Help with identification? The incredible thing happened: unknown plants two days in a row. If anyone recognizes this thing, please SCREAM!

EDIT: This turned out to be Kerria japonica, thank you so much for the identification, mific!

I was pretty lazy today, art-wise, but decided to take a little walk and take my sketchbook with me. Maybe I'd find something interesting? And, sure enough, someone in the neighborhood has a very pretty yellow flowering hedge. From afar, I thought, sure thing, that's going to be a Potentilla, how nice!, but when I came closer... Uh, what's that? The leaves are all wrong! (You can see how the leaves stood in the drawing below, I have reproduced one of the shoots of the hedge as accurately as was possible in the short time - about 40 minutes). But, we're still somewhere in the Rosaceae, aren't we?!?

Basically, I'm very confused. Actually, we are in the Rosaceae, so at least I was not totally off, botanically speaking?!?



On the art side of things, I'm quite happy with this page. This time, I didn't just take the same pens I used in my sketches from yesterday, but additionally used a grey marker (Faber Castell), and it's incredible, the difference a few shadows can make! Everything looks much more detailed, even when it isn't really. XD

Comments

[yhlee]

Your page is gorgeous and while I cannot help with plant ID (...ever), I hope someone IDs it for you! :D

[eller]

Thanks! :)

[yhlee]

Actually - my mom has plant ID books not just for Korea but for other regions as well. May I have your permission to send this picture to her (with credit) and ask her if she can find an ID for it? (She knows about scientific names.)

[eller]

Sure! :) I'd be happy about any identification help I can get! You also can pass along the info that the blooms are a pure, intense yellow.

[yhlee]

Have done! It might take a few days for Mom to get back to me as she doesn't have home internet - she hikes out to the local library branch to connect to their wi-fi on her iPad. :)

[eller]

Thank you so much! :D

[eller]

P.S.: Someone here in the thread identified the thing as Kerria japonica, and yes, that sure looks like it. O_O I've really never seen this plant before! (It's absolutely not native to Germany, AHAHAHA. And not a typical 'cultivated' plant, either. I wonder how the owners even got ahold of this stuff. Well, they sure have a unique garden hedge...)

[dhampyresa]

You could try LeafSnap or iNaturalist?

[eller]

Without a smartphone, that's going to be difficult. XD (I'm very low-tech when not at work, ahahaha.) But it's nice to see that apps like these exist! :D

[eve11]

Some kind of crabapple tree? Has thorns, doubly serrate leaves, blossoms look like apple or pear blossoms?

[eller]

Looks similar enough, yes, (and I'm also pretty sure we're in the Rosaceae), except I haven't seen one with intense yellow blooms... :)

[mific]

Might be kerria japonica?

[eller]

YESSSS! I think that's it! Thank you sooooo much! :D

[mific]

Well your drawing was very accurate! :)

[eller]

AHAHAHA, I try. XD Thank you!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Another lovely bloom :D. I wasn't familiar with this plant, but yeah, from the flower, I would also have said something in Rosaceae.