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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Harry Palmr · 2019-04-06 15:39:40

Excuse my presumption starting this (is there another one lurking somewhere?) but I think we need a stickied thread for this sort of thing. Can a mod do the necessary? Can someone confirm these are Arum italicum and Ribwort plantain (plantago lanceolata)

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#1232 12-08-2020 5:58pm
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Any ideas?
Approx 6ft tall - don’t remember it last year.......

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#1233 12-08-2020 5:59pm
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Another pic

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#1234 12-08-2020 6:24pm
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Its Leycestaria, Pheasant Berry.

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#1235 14-08-2020 9:58pm
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Hi , can anyone identify this plant/weed please? Thanks

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#1236 15-08-2020 4:48pm
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coathanger wrote: »

Hi , can anyone identify this plant/weed please? Thanks

Looks like Buckwheat, Fagopyron esculentum. Not common at all in Ireland; what's your general location?

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#1237 15-08-2020 7:59pm
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Looks like Buckwheat, Fagopyron esculentum. Not common at all in Ireland; what's your general location?

Wexford, will try & get some better pics tomorrow if it ever stops raining ðŸ™„

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#1238 16-08-2020 12:32pm
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Anyone know the name of this plant? Looks ugly and grows unbelievably high, obscuring the tree behind it. I cut it back to its base only 6 weeks ago and it's growing fast again.

Trying to figure out if I need to treat it like a weed and eliminate it.

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#1239 16-08-2020 12:37pm
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Ardent wrote: »

Anyone know the name of this plant? Looks ugly and grows unbelievably high, obscuring the tree behind it. I cut it back to its base only 6 weeks ago and it's growing fast again.

Trying to figure out if I need to treat it like a weed and eliminate it.

Buddleia, yes very vigorous, if you're not happy with it growing rapidly, remove, it can grab a lot of space and light.

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#1240 16-08-2020 2:23pm
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Buddleia, yes very vigorous, if you're not happy with it growing rapidly, remove, it can grab a lot of space and light.

Commonly called Butterfly bush. Great insect attractor

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#1241 19-08-2020 6:18pm
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Can we post bug pics for identification here? I didn't want to start another thread.
I found a load of these guys while digging the garden to plant a few trees. Can anyone tell me what the turn into, and whether they are pests?

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#1242 19-08-2020 6:28pm
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Might be the larvae of chafer beetles?

Just read they can be a problem in lawns in eating grass roots. I have seen them when digging as well but never had them in enough numbers for them to be a problem.

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#1243 19-08-2020 6:38pm
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They look a bit like like cicada nymphs and even more like cetonia (scarab) nymphs... but in Ireland? Odd...

Also, try posting it in the Nature and Bird Watching forum.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=406

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#1244 19-08-2020 7:22pm
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They've been in the garden for years, as I remember digging them up before. I'll try the Nature and Bird Watching forum as well.

I dug about half a square metre and found about ten of them.
The lawn in question isn't great. A huge amount of moss in it.

Edit: Looking at that link, definitely looks like chafer beetles!

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#1245 19-08-2020 7:58pm
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Any ideas I know it’s not a flower ðŸ˜

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#1246 19-08-2020 8:01pm
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Pic?

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#1247 19-08-2020 8:01pm
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No picture?

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#1248 19-08-2020 8:13pm
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Effects wrote: »

Can we post bug pics for identification here? I didn't want to start another thread.
I found a load of these guys while digging the garden to plant a few trees. Can anyone tell me what the turn into, and whether they are pests?]

If it's as big as it looks I'd be thinking Cockchafer grub.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer

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#1249 23-08-2020 8:19pm
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acacia or locust here? please tell me how i tell the difference

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#1250 23-08-2020 9:25pm
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Neither, from what I can see.

Acacia (robinia pseudoacacia)/black locust has much softer leaves, arranged differently, and has "grapes" of white flowers similar to wisteria. It blooms in spring.

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#1251 23-08-2020 9:30pm
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Here's a pic of black locust/ robinia pseudoacacia (commonly called acacia):

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#1252 23-08-2020 10:13pm
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i know the flowers nowhere close, so what it is then? any ideas?

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#1253 23-08-2020 10:20pm
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I can't think of the name, I don't think it's berberis or pyracantha but it''s one of those ubiquitous shrubs with orange berries, I'm sure someone else will be able to tell you.

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#1254 23-08-2020 10:40pm
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flintash wrote: »

i know the flowers nowhere close, so what it is then? any ideas?

Is it one of the spiraeas?

Maybe spiraea nipponica June bride?

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#1255 23-08-2020 10:50pm
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The leaves look a bit different.

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#1256 24-08-2020 12:46am
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I think its a cotoneaster from the leaves but not sure of the berries.

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#1257 24-08-2020 4:26pm
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i guess i wait for another time of the year, to see what the flowers looks like. by the way, its near 3 meters high, not a small shrub by any means

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#1258 24-08-2020 4:43pm
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The way it grows is a bit like Coralberry/ Symphoricarpos but the flowers are nothing like it.

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#1259 24-08-2020 4:46pm
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The growth habit does look like cotoneaster. there are loads of varieties but those leaves and stems look like one of the varieties which grow against a wall. Roots will travel a distance. If kept trimmed it makes a nice enough shrub and is evergreen.

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#1260 24-08-2020 6:40pm
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I'd be pretty sure it's Spiraea nipponica too

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#1261 24-08-2020 6:44pm
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Any ideas? Its in my silage ground, mortone doesn't kill it anyway.

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