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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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    #1022
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    Clarabel wrote: »
    If it quacks like a duck but walks like a goose...what is it?

    This looks like nettle, that's just over a week's growth. But no stings. Is it nettle?

    Lamium/Dead-nettle for me too.


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    #1023
    Clarabel
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Geum urbanum, Wood Avens - wildflower

    So safe enough to plant in wildflower area. Not gonna turn invasive?

    I've pot plant it to see what happens with the seed head.

    I've had other non invasive buttercup come up (no creepers on well established plant) but these leaves look different


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    #1024
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    It prefers some shade, usually grows well, I wouldn't say invasive, and very easy just to pull out if you want rid.


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    #1025
    Spook_ie
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    Any thoughts on this one?

    Quite a woody stem, so likely to be hardy ( to my mind anyway) variegated leaves quite attractive in their own way. Anyways potted up a cutting to see what grows but if we can name it before it becomes a day of the Triffids issue would be nice
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    #1026
    standardg60
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    Clarabel wrote: »
    If it quacks like a duck but walks like a goose...what is it?

    This looks like nettle, that's just over a week's growth. But no stings. Is it nettle?

    Everything about that says nettle to me.
    Growth may still be a bit young to carry a sting.


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    #1027
    standardg60
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    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Any thoughts on this one?

    Quite a woody stem, so likely to be hardy ( to my mind anyway) variegated leaves quite attractive in their own way. Anyways potted up a cutting to see what grows but if we can name it before it becomes a day of the Triffids issue would be nice
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    I'll start the ball rolling with Birch.
    Can you take a pic of the woody stem?


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    #1028
    New Home
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    I'd exclude birch altogether, personally.


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    #1029
    standardg60
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'd exclude birch altogether, personally.

    Be it on your own head New Home :-)


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    #1030
    New Home
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    But that would be sore, especially with the flowerpot!


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    #1031
    standardg60
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    New Home wrote: »
    But that would be sore, especially with the flowerpot!

    Ha, good comeback!

    Viruses (which this plant is afflicted with) can do strange things as we all know.


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    #1032
    New Home
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    I thought it was just a lack of minerals... :o


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    #1033
    GinSoaked
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    New Home wrote: »
    I thought it was just a lack of minerals... :o

    I've seen better looking seedlings that I've given a dose of Roundup :D


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    #1034
    New Home
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    GinSoaked wrote: »
    I've seen better looking seedlings that I've given a dose of Roundup :D

    Murderer!!!


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    #1035
    GinSoaked
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    New Home wrote: »
    Murderer!!!

    No serial killer :pac:


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    #1036
    New Home
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    That's even worse... :(


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    #1037
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    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Any thoughts on this one?

    Quite a woody stem, so likely to be hardy ( to my mind anyway) variegated leaves quite attractive in their own way. Anyways potted up a cutting to see what grows but if we can name it before it becomes a day of the Triffids issue would be nice
    20200604-194536.jpg

    Could it be a Sorbus? Maybe Swedish Whitebeam, it does look unwell though.


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    #1038
    GinSoaked
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Could it be a Sorbus? Maybe Swedish Whitebeam, it does look unwell though.

    My thoughts exactly but I've seen tens of thousands of birch seedlings but I'm not sure I've ever seen any Sorbus x intermedia seedlings.


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    #1039
    New Home
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Could it be a Sorbus? Maybe Swedish Whitebeam, it does look unwell though.

    You might be on to something. This is it, in its autumnal colours (according to the internet): the leaves have a very similar pattern to that of the leaf at 9 o'clock.

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    The only thing is that the sapling here seems to have leaves with pointier "tips".


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    #1040
    Spook_ie
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    I'll bear these thoughts in mind, unwell perhaps, it was just randomly growing in a weed patch that I dug up. I've given it a dose of rooting gel and potted it up so we'll see what grows ( or not )


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    #1041
    New Home
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    Give it some fertiliser, too, please. :)

    Any chance that you could post a picture of the stem, please?


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    #1042
    grinder23
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    Any idea of this


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    #1043
    New Home
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    Sedum?


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    #1044
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    Yes, Sedum telephium, Orpine


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    #1045
    BionicRasher
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    any ideas what type of tree this is
    amazing purple and green leaves and flowers are bright yellow
    also is evergreen

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    #1046
    New Home
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    The leaves resemble those of a mimosa pudica or even an acacia dealbata, but I've never seen them that colour. Gorgeous, whatever it is.


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    #1047
    GinSoaked
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    Mimosa of some sort, looks a little bit like a Chocolate Mimosa Tree, but that has pink flowers.


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    #1048
    New Home
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    Bingo. Acacia Baileyana, I'd say.

    https://www.allnatives.com.au/shrubs/3-to-6m-high/purple-leafed-cootamundra-wattle-acacia-baileyana-purpurea


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    #1049
    BionicRasher
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    New Home wrote: »
    Bingo. Acacia Baileyana, I'd say.

    https://www.allnatives.com.au/shrubs/3-to-6m-high/purple-leafed-cootamundra-wattle-acacia-baileyana-purpurea

    Excellent thanks
    Its an amazing tree and yellow flowers/balls are stunning in spring. I wonder if it would grown in my garden (a bit windy so I am not sure if it would last)
    Seems to be an Australian species tree but this one is thriving a few miles out the road from me in the local Tennis Club - however that is much more sheltered than my garden!


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    #1050
    New Home
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    I'm not too familiar with that tree, I do know from personal experience, though, that acacia dealbata is NOT all that hardy at all, if you don't protect it very well from the frost and keep it nice and snug it will die on you. Many years ago I had a very large one that was growing in a huge pot in a very sunny, sheltered corner between the house and the granny flat, it grew very tall (it was up to the roof of a 2-storey house!!) and we couldn't find a fleece big enough to protect it (or a way of actually getting that high up to cover it with the fleece), and it didn't last the winter. I was really sorry to see it go. This could be different, though.


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    #1051
    macraignil
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    BionicRasher wrote: »
    Excellent thanks
    Its an amazing tree and yellow flowers/balls are stunning in spring. I wonder if it would grown in my garden (a bit windy so I am not sure if it would last)
    Seems to be an Australian species tree but this one is thriving a few miles out the road from me in the local Tennis Club - however that is much more sheltered than my garden!


    I tried to get an Acacia baileyana growing in the garden here in north Cork. Planted it out last autumn and it stayed green up until about February when it suddenly went brown and dead. It was a young enough sapling that I got for 2 or 4 euro at a plant market meeting in Kildare but still a bit disappointed it failed to settle. Might have been a bit too exposed to the east side of where I planted it.


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