What is this bush/tree/plant?

[gentlegreen]

Sorry, no pic as of yet but trying to find the name of a plant type I spotted yesterday where the stem is massive and looks a little bit in shape and form like ginger? (light brown, bulbous stem, etc.) ... and just with green leaves on top of that. I realise I'm shit at explaining this, but it really bugs me because I Must Know... (!)

But do you mean there are rhizomes on the surface ?

If the leaves are spiky it might be an iris.

 

[Duncan2]

Anyone know if a small cat could die from eating windfall damsons?My lad started putting saucers of milk out for a stray kitten.It then started kipping in a washing basket under a verandah.Anyway apart from a bit of a limp there seemed to be not much wrong with it.One morning about a week ago it didn't get out of the washing basket even when the lad put a saucer down for it.Then we noticed it was extremely poorly unable to see,not wanting milk,hardly an exaggeration to say it was behaving like it had kreutzfeld-jacob disease.We also noticed loads of damson stones in the basket.On advice I took the poor thing to the vet and they took it in but clearly shared my view that it was a goner.Since I subsequently heard nothing I assume it was humanely killed.Bit off the thread but any toxicologists on here?

 

[Sirena]

Anyone recognize this plant - which was posted on another chat forum...?

The initially thought it was fennel but it has no scent.....

 

[gentlegreen]

It looks totally like one of the same family though - umbeliferae - now apiacea .
I'm not aware of a non-smelly member of that family though..

 

[madamv]

Dill? Cow parsley?

 

[madamv]

Sure its not fennel? That structure looks very same. Fennel only scents when agitated. Dunno if you know that ?

 

[gentlegreen]

A bit of context would help - is that a current photo in the UK and how big is the plant ?

 

[gentlegreen]

Sure its not fennel? That structure looks very same. Fennel only scents when agitated. Dunno if you know that ?

That photo isn't fennel !

Even though the source page says it is.

http://notesonaspanishvalley.com/2013/06/12/picking-wild-fennel/

 

[Sirena]

A bit of context would help - is that a current photo in the UK and how big is the plant ?

It's in Tooting and it's about 7 feet high!

 

[madamv]

That photo isn't fennel !

Even though the source page says it is.

http://notesonaspanishvalley.com/2013/06/12/picking-wild-fennel/

Oh no! I'm an idiot

 

[madamv]

Looks like cow parsley.

 

[lizzieloo]

Anyone recognize this plant - which was posted on another chat forum...?

The initially thought it was fennel but it has no scent.....

That looks like fennel to me

 

[gentlegreen]

But fennel NOW in the UK ?

 

[lizzieloo]

Yes, I went to the Cambridge Botanical Gardens at the weekend and was admiring the fennel there, it wasn't flowering I don't think but they may deadhead it there, I would

 

[lizzieloo]

What a fucking know it all

 

[smmudge]

What are these funny things? there's loads of them growing on the side of the pavement down my road. They look hard but when you kick them a cloud of spores comes out, so some kind of mushroom thing I'm guessing.

 

[lizzieloo]

They look a bit like ink caps but they also don't

Helpful

 

[smmudge]

But why would mushrooms grow in spring???

 

[lizzieloo]

Some do, there are some around one of the sites I regularly survey

Not ones like that though

 

[gentlegreen]

Different species grow all year round. I've just had some pop out of a pot I'd had indoors all winter

 

[gentlegreen]

silly me. They're horsetails.

Equisetum

https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw....0...1c.1.64.img..5.3.255.Pgqm_qFLDZ4#imgrc=_

Tough as old boots - prehistoric.
So much silica in them you can use them as panscrubs

 

[lizzieloo]

oooooooo prehistoric

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[smmudge]

Hey that's awesome. What other plants reproduce by spores instead of seeds? Is it loads?

 

[StoneRoad]

smmudge - I think spores are restricted to ferns / bracken and fungi ........

 

[lizzieloo]

And horsetails

 

[campanula]

And mosses.

 

[ringo]

And triffids.

 

[madamv]

And bacteria

 

[gentlegreen]

Oh yes, I remember now they do sometimes - like with reheating rice ...