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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:28 pm Post subject: Identification? |
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Do I have Alexanders/Horse Parsley, Smyrium Olusatrum?
This arrived in the garden a couple of years ago and is busily seeding itself around the place. It grows about 1.25m tall, the hover flies love the flowers and the birds love the seeds. It's a handsome plant.
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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first picture i would have said no second picture yes but the flowers should be creamy and highly scented a second look suggests hogweed but not giant hogweed, ill look for some pics on net so you can compare,
http://www.dorsetwalks.com/rodwelltrail/pages/plants/hogweed.htm
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like hogweed to me and I know sweet FA about plant identification.
Hey Greengage you have the place to yourself, Silver Surfer must be on holiday.
Good guy, spill some of the juice on your hand and put up a photo of the rash, it wont hurt, honest it wont!!! At least it will be a positive ID.
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:38 am Post subject: |
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I think you're probably right, Greengage. No strong perfume and, in hindsight, it does remind me of the plant we were warned NOT to make pea shooters from, back in the day.
As for your suggestion, Tagwex, "After you, Sir."
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Oh no, I insist m 'lud. You first. Age before beauty and all that.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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tippben Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 921 Location: north tipperary
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hogweed, Heraclium sphondylium. Angelica is hairless, with a purple stem. Alexanders have a yellow flower.
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Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 307 Location: Cork
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Edible, apparently.
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Really? Which bits?
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