What is this bush/tree/plant?

[gentlegreen]

How about this one? it was growing in clumps 2 to 3 feet high in a young ash woodland plantation in Yorkshire...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63881028@N04/9407224018/in/photostream/

Bingo

Any updates on this ? Or was it just a one-off visit to the site. ?

I had a similar thing a few years back - photographed it on a cycle ride 10 miles from home in the autumn or late winter.



This was my desktop wallpaper for some time and it was over a year before I found myself back there, but earlier in the year and figured out what it was.

 

[Bingo]

So what's that then? I thought my mystery plant might be Golden Rod??

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm pretty certain that's what mine was.
I pass it all the time on rides, but I'd never seen it look like that before.
And if you google it, you'll struggle to find any images that look like that.

 

[Bingo]

No way!

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm sure when I went back to the site I took photos of young plants, but I'm struggling to find the photos at the moment.
Unfortunately Google street view is a winter shot in a year when they'd scythed the verge.

 

[_pH_]

I'm pretty certain that's what mine was.
I pass it all the time on rides, but I'd never seen it look like that before.
And if you google it, you'll struggle to find any images that look like that.

Looks like Solidago that's gone to seed to me.

 

[gentlegreen]

That's the Latin name for golden rod.

 

[existentialist]

I have a mystery plant/tree for Urbanz to identify. It grows in a garden in Brittany, and the main plant looks like this:

(don't be confused by the ivy-covered trunk)

It seems to put out runners, which look like this (these are getting a bit big, so here are clickable thumbnails):-



And here's some detail of the leaves:-



TIA, Urbans!

 

[Leafster]

It's a sumach (rhus) existentialist. It might not have been on this thread but someone else asked for an ID.

See here for details of one variety: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3984

 

[_pH_]

That's the Latin name for golden rod.

I know, I was just adding confirmation to what you said.

 

[gentlegreen]

I've read conflicting reports about that particular member of the sumach family and photo-dermatitis, so best be careful with it.

 

[existentialist]

I've read conflicting reports about that particular member of the sumach family and photo-dermatitis, so best be careful with it.

Interesting - it has a smell that says (to me) "stay away", so I have.

Thanks for such a quick response!

 

[gentlegreen]

Are you on holiday in Brittany ?

(jealous )

 

[gentlegreen]

I know what it is, but didn't know where else to post it.
I simply had to stop on the way in to point my bike-cam at this very impressive urban weed growing out of a remarkably small gap.



I'll go back and get a proper photo before someone cuts it down or the council comes and poisons it.

 

[Brechin Sprout]

That's the Latin name for golden rod.

Your photo looks more like Meadowsweet.

 

[Brechin Sprout]

Coltsfoot

 

[gentlegreen]

Your photo looks more like Meadowsweet.

Actually you could be right ...

Photos certainly show brown stems. I've never seen it massed like that - or up on a dry verge... but then I've never seen a solid bank of golden rod either.

My photo suggests it was March 2012 so after a fairly unpleasant winter.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think I know where my Sunday cycle ride will be this week.

 

[trabuquera]

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I'll go back and get a proper photo before someone cuts it down or the council comes and poisons it.

Coltsfoot or Gunnera? (can't tell myself) - more megaleaved monsters here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/223/

 

[existentialist]

Are you on holiday in Brittany ?

(jealous )

Yep, 3½ weeks in a little cottage owned by some friends of ours. 25 days of apèro, nice patisserie, cheese, dégustation de vin and sunshine (hopefully)

 

[gentlegreen]

Coltsfoot or Gunnera? (can't tell myself) - more megaleaved monsters here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/223/

Definitely coltsfoot - but tussilago, not petasites (damn these "country names" ! )
Same plant family though (asteracea - daisy)

I encountered petasites (butterbur) for the first time a few years back.
It emerges looking like this - when I first saw it I wondered if it was a variety of the parasitic plant broomrape.



The native variety makes big leaves along riverbanks.



But on the same ride where I saw the meadowsweet (?), there was a garden escape of the giant Japanese variety.

 

[Bingo]

Ok I've got a better pic of my mysterious yellow one!!

 

[gentlegreen]

It's a clovery thing.

it has trilobed leaves - so trefoil ?



Lotus corniculatus "Birdsfoot trefoil"

 

[Bingo]

well it kind of looks like it but that's a few inches high, this is up to 3 foot!! Arg

 

[Bingo]

I think it might just be a big one of them

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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The native variety makes big leaves along riverbanks.

I do like that. Don't think I'd have much room for my sun lounger though

 

[gentlegreen]

well it kind of looks like it but that's a few inches high, this is up to 3 foot!! Arg

Yes - the lotuses I usually see are close to the ground on impoverished, fairly open situations, so it's an odd business all around.

There are rather a lot of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_(genus)

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised - I used to think willowherb was willowherb, but I now have 4 species in my front garden, one more in the back - and I've just noticed I'm cycling past a 6th every evening.

 

[gentlegreen]

I do like that. Don't think I'd have much room for my sun lounger though

It's the oddest thing - you just can't tell it's a glorified daisy.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's the oddest thing - you just can't tell it's a glorified daisy.

Ihave no objection to daisies

 

[ringo]

any ideas? the leaves feel sticky.