Anyone know what this plant is?

sporina

tromtipp

The leaves look like an Atriplex, maybe A. patula, but the stems look too robust for that.

sporina

thanks for your reply.. a mate gave it to me (said it was a sunflower - clearly not)

Plants with hastate leaves like this aren't too numerous. Have a look at Persicaria arifolia, a Tearthumb.

TAZ32

Looks like fallopia baldschuanica or russian vine to me,

New Home

To be honest, it reminds me of the vines and leaves of a sweet potato (the white variety).

tromtipp

Fallopia crossed my mind too, but I couldn't find a link which showed hastate leaves. But that reminds me that I should go and check the corner of my garden where my father planted one, in spite of a huge family row, about 40 years ago. A decade later he spent lots of money cutting it down. Since then it's one of very few things that I always use glyphosate on if it reappears.

tl:dr if it is that, run!

looksee

Been there, did that

sporina

looksee wrote: »

Been there, did that

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looksee

sporina wrote: »

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Planted a Fallopia and a couple of years later dug it up again.

sporina

looksee wrote: »

Planted a Fallopia and a couple of years later dug it up again.

got ya - i'll be chucking it soon.. I didn't even want it (i appreciate plants but don't have green fingers myself).. I took it as it was a gift (said it was a sunflower though).. looks more like a weed to me now. :pac:

looksee

No-one is saying it is a Fallopia, just to be careful if it is.

tromtipp

Bet your friend exchanged his cow for some magic beans, and this is what they're growing into.

Don't climb up . . .

notAMember

I'd say your mate planted a sunflower in good faith, but something else jumped in and used the pot when the sunflower didn't make it.

An Ri rua

sporina wrote: »

got ya - i'll be chucking it soon.. I didn't even want it (i appreciate plants but don't have green fingers myself).. I took it as it was a gift (said it was a sunflower though).. looks more like a weed to me now. :pac:

Any neighbour that you'd like to give 'an olive branch' to?

sporina

An Ri rua wrote: »

Any neighbour that you'd like to give 'an olive branch' to?

lol.. no... but if i did, not sure how well it would be received..

I got a plant once as a secret santa pressie :eek: they wer prob fobbin off a gift they didn't like.. (thought it was thee oddest present I ever received)

policarp

Maybe sunflower seed was sown in the flower pot and didn't germinate.

I've had a few surprises with seeds.