What is this bush/tree/plant?

[gentlegreen]

cleome ?

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't know why I know ....

Apparently it's in the cabbage family - like stocks

You could really wind someone up by removing the flowers.

 

[ringo]

cleome ?

nice one gentlegreen, mother in law is impressed

 

[gentlegreen]

The Torygraph rates it as a very well performing half hardy annual.
Is it at all fragrant ?

 

[ringo]

The Torygraph rates it as a very well performing half hardy annual.
Is it at all fragrant ?

Smelled of mint, so we thought it would be related to that, not a brassica.

 

[gentlegreen]

By all accounts it used to be grouped closer to the caper - which are unopened flower buds.

 

[Bingo]

Ok here's a couple more I can't figure out! They're from a youngish ash plantation woodland from which half the trees were removed for timber a couple of years ago, so there's quite a few weird things coming up due to increased light levels...

 

[gentlegreen]

The first one is ragwort of some kind - possibly "Oxford" - famously spread by the railways.

Going by the leaf, the second one looks a bit like a primrose that's gone to seed ...

 

[Bingo]

Yeah I agree about the first one, think its so leggy cos of the weird light conditions... would primrose have such a long stalk do you think? Cheers for the help again by the way!

 

[gentlegreen]

I only wish I wasn't too lazy to learn to accurately identify all five willowherb species in my garden.

 

[Bingo]

That's a matter for the professionals I had considered something similar... for about 1 second

 

[Leafster]

The first one is ragwort of some kind - possibly "Oxford" - famously spread by the railways.

Going by the leaf, the second one looks a bit like a primrose that's gone to seed ...

Primroses (Primula Vulgaris) only have one flower per stalk. As it's a multiflower plant it could be a Cowslip or Oxlip but the flowers are usually more pendulous (I think). It might be a hybrid with a cultivated Polyanthus.

 

[Bingo]

I've heard there were hybrid oxlips in a nearby wood so that might be a possibility!

 

[Leafster]

Anyone know what this is?


IMG_0381 by Leafster2008, on Flickr

It's a rather majestic plant which must be at least four feet tall maybe more.

Here's a close up:


IMG_0381a by Leafster2008, on Flickr

It's growing wild on a steep chalky bank if that helps.

 

[gentlegreen]

Hemp agrimony - eupatorium cannabinum.

(A member of the daisy family)

I saw an "out and about" programme once where the presenter authoritatively informed viewers that it was actually related to its namesake - whereas it's only so named because of the superficially similar leaf arrangement.

 

[Leafster]

Thanks gentlegreen !

We've been attempting to clear the bank it's growing on but thought we'd leave it as it looks so good.

 

[Bingo]

another one from my ash woodland.... sorry about the awful quality you can hardly see the flower but its a very pale greeny/yellow, almost white...

 

[gentlegreen]

That's a pretty tall order - would need to know if the stem was round or square, hairy or smooth ...
It looks a bit like a member of the mint / dead nettle family ... but from here the leaves on the tall one look a bit dock-like...

 

[Bingo]

its just the tall one I was looking at, the other stuff's dog's mercury... thought it might be white dead nettle

 

[gentlegreen]

its just the tall one I was looking at, the other stuff's dog's mercury... thought it might be white dead nettle

I can see at least one more - bottom left - and one just behind and to the left of the tall one.

I'm guessing this was taken a while ago too ?

 

[IC3D]

lol ganja plant as obv been pointed out. boom.

 

[Bingo]

Not a while ago, just knocked the focus and didn't really know what I was doing! I think that yellow one from before might have been Yellow Loosestrife

 

[gentlegreen]

Not a while ago, just knocked the focus and didn't really know what I was doing! I think that yellow one from before might have been Yellow Loosestrife

My neighbour had that in his garden - it's quite a leafy plant ...

just had a google and perhaps the garden variety has been bred a lot ...


I suppose all these plants are going to look a bit drawn because of their location ...

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[Leafster]

Did you post that photo up for an ID gentlegreen ? If so, it's a seed pod from a Lime Tree (not the citrus sort).

 

[gentlegreen]

Bloody hell - and I was only looking at some lime tree flowers the other day.

Thanks..

 

[Brechin Sprout]

Lime tree flowers in September? Antipodean?

 

[gentlegreen]

I meant I was looking at the fruits developing from where the flowers had been ...

 

[ringo]

Saw these at a school today. I think I once had the first one as a house plant but no idea what is called.

 

[Callie]

the first one is a cheeseplant! or Monstera deliciosa i had no idea they fruited with edible fruit. My nan had one.

Dunno about the other one?