Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Harry Palmr

Cheers, dunno if some seeds got blown or carried by birds.

I'll let them grow in that spot but try to stop it running riot.

xil

Hi all,

Any idea what shrub/tree is this?

GinSoaked

Another favourite here Willow.

xil

GinSoaked wrote: »

Another favourite here Willow.

Thank you, it just appeared in my tiny front garden.

GinSoaked

xil wrote: »

Thank you, it just appeared in my tiny front garden.

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Harry Palmr

Is this a Wild Lantana? Or a Mock Orange? or a Reeves Spirea? Or something else?

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Definitely not a mock orange (philadelphus). It doesn't look like any lantana I know, either.

It's a long shot but, some type of crab apple, perhaps?

looksee

I think all the apples, cherries etc have pointed leaves. Could it be an Aronia. It looks like something that would have conspicuous berries.

Supercell

This little fella has self seeded in a few places around my garden and I quite like it. Can anyone help identify what it is?

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Nigella.

looksee

Nigella, aka Love in a Mist. Pretty self seeding annual.

snap

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The seeds are edible, BTW.

Supercell

Wow that was fast!! Thanks guys

ballyrhy86

Does anyone know what this plant is? It shot up recently in the warm weather. It's about half a metre tall at this point.

LazyClouds

I can't remember ever planting these in this pot. I think I mightve bought it altogether as an arrangement a long while ago. Can anyone identify both plants in the pot?

Thanks

looksee

Ballyrhy - looks like a lily.

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ballyrhy86 wrote: »

Does anyone know what this plant is? It shot up recently in the warm weather. It's about half a metre tall at this point.

Some kind of lily, maybe a tiger lily.

looksee

LazyClouds wrote: »

I can't remember ever planting these in this pot. I think I mightve bought it altogether as an arrangement a long while ago. Can anyone identify both plants in the pot?

Thanks

Box or Lonicera nitida seem like options for the low growing one, I would say Lonicera but I am not wholly convinced. No idea what the tall one is, it could be something self-sown as it does not look like a convincing partner for the other one.

LazyClouds

LazyClouds wrote: »

I can't remember ever planting these in this pot. I think I mightve bought it altogether as an arrangement a long while ago. Can anyone identify both plants in the pot?

Thanks

Taller plant is a Birch sapling

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looksee wrote: »

Box or Lonicera nitida seem like options for the low growing one, I would say Lonicera but I am not wholly convinced. No idea what the tall one is, it could be something self-sown as it does not look like a convincing partner for the other one.

I'd exclude box, I'd say lonicera (nitida, pileata, or something, not honeysuckle), too.

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Deleted User wrote: »

Taller plant is a Birch sapling

That's why it looked familiar! I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

looksee

NH, I had not been aware of pileata, yes I would agree, the leaves look a bit too regular for nitida.

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looksee wrote: »

NH, I had not been aware of pileata, yes I would agree, the leaves look a bit too regular for nitida.

Neither was I, until 10 mins ago!

LazyClouds

Thanks so much! There a lot of silver birches in my area so a seed must've blown in from somewhere. Now that I know what they are it'll be much easier to plant them somewhere else
Thanks again!!

standardg60

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is this a Wild Lantana? Or a Mock Orange? or a Reeves Spirea? Or something else?

Sometimes i think you like setting these quizzes :-).

It's just plain old Pyracantha.

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When he's right, he's right.

rje66

ballyrhy86 wrote: »

Does anyone know what this plant is? It shot up recently in the warm weather. It's about half a metre tall at this point.

Probably growing in from Neighbour's garden.

Harry Palmr

standardg60 wrote: »

Sometimes i think you like setting these quizzes :-).

It's just plain old Pyracantha.

No no I'm just stupid about non food flora. Plant ID was my weakest module in Horticultural class

It's been long unloved and also hasn't really bloomed for a long time but it looks like its about the explode in a cloud of white flowers for the first time in several years. It's about 2 x 2 x 3 metres.

standardg60

Harry Palmr wrote: »

No no I'm just stupid about non food flora. Plant ID was my weakest module in Horticultural class

It's been long unloved and also hasn't really bloomed for a long time but it looks like its about the explode in a cloud of white flowers for the first time in several years. It's about 2 x 2 x 3 metres.

:-) I was being very tongue in cheek.

Pyracantha always flowers best when it's been left unpruned for a couple of years and the growth can mature. It can be quite spectacular!

CelticRambler

I'm back, with a question about my dogwood's neighbour. There are several specimens of this on my land, which I've always thought of as "some kind of willowy thing" but now I'm not so sure. It's a relatively fast-growing bush/tree, to a height of about 4m in 10 years, with an awful mess of thick branches and quite a bit of dead wood in the lower parts once it gets beyond 2m high.

It produces huuuuuuuge quantities of fluffy pollen in the spring, from stubby catkins, which is what had me calling it a willow, but it doesn't produce the long straight "sallies" that I know from my grandad's horticultural lessons. Also, it's growing in some of the driest parts of the property, which isn't very willowy behaviour, is it? A bit of photo-matching yesterday took me to the grey willow. The trunk/bark matches, and the shape/colour of the mature leaves, but neither young nor mature leaves have even a hint of fluff on the underside.

So what else could it be? Catkins have come and gone for this year.
Typical messy branches, from the ground up.


Mature leaves


Red tinged new shoots, coming from 10-year-old trunk cut last month.