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Could you please identify this herb?

  • 17-07-2013 1:25pm
    #1
    RTT
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭


    Hi guys. I was given some different herbs recently and I know what most of them are but I am having trouble finding out what this purple flowering herb is. I googled it but to know avail.
    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,674 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Both the flower and the leaf appear to be some kind of brassica, but I'm not sure what herb that would be.


  • #3
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    some type of radish? have a look at the bottom of the stem. Taste the leaves and see if they are peppery. Some radish types are grown for the seed pods.


  • #4
    RTT
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭RTT


    Thanks guys. Could it be sage by any chance? If you look to the right of the purple flowering plant there appears to be another herb. They all came from the same pot. I was given them on the last day at Bloom in the park when they were packing up.


  • #5
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    definitely not sage. google it and look at images.


  • #6
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    sage has hairy leaves


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  • #7
    tara m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭tara m


    On the right looks like a lettuce, and to the left, appears to be some basil... still thinking on the middle one!


  • #8
    RTT
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭RTT


    yellowlabrador wrote: »
    some type of radish? have a look at the bottom of the stem. Taste the leaves and see if they are peppery. Some radish types are grown for the seed pods.

    Thanks. I think you may be right. Just did some more research on google of purple flower radish and the pictures appear to match. You're a star!


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