What is this bush/tree/plant?

[madamv]

Tb

 

[Artaxerxes]

Anyone know what this is?

Venus flytrap by chiron3636, on Flickr

 

[gentlegreen]

A bit early, but it looks a bit like a pumpkin seedling - though the stalk is rather thin - some sort of climber ?

Fat seed so probably didn't fall far from the plant... a shame the seed shell isn't still around ...

I suspect you'll need to keep us updated as it takes shape.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I was suspecting it might be a beech seed or something, found a clump of em growing near a river under the tree, they were a lovely shape.

I'll be sure to go back and keep tabs on em.

 

[gentlegreen]

I suspect you're right.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=b...HACw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1160&bih=651#imgrc=_

 

[Artaxerxes]

Ooh its got a tricky deceptive first leaf!

 

[bi0boy]

Any ideas?

Sorry about the picture quality but it was dusk and my phone camera sucks

 

[StoneRoad]

Looks a bit like an "evening primrose" to me. Although the flowers aren't quite right. bi0boy - Do the flowers open or face up during the day ?


Ah, Oenothera erythrosepala - classed as a garden escape, but should flower in June - so that spot must be very sheltered.


E2A - garden variety of "Star of Bethlehem" or some form of lily.

 

[gentlegreen]

fritillaria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_imperialis

 

[bi0boy]

fritillaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_imperialis

 

[Callie]

Any ideas?

Sorry about the picture quality but it was dusk and my phone camera sucks

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ooh is that a surprise on youve found in your garden? thats cool

 

[bi0boy]

ooh is that a surprise on youve found in your garden? thats cool

No it's in someone else's garden I happened to notice when walking past hence the lack of a close-up picture

 

[Treacle Toes]

Anyone know what this is?

Venus flytrap by chiron3636, on Flickr

The flickr label says venus fly trap.

 

[gentlegreen]

I reckon beech mast must be much tastier than sycamore.
I cycle through mixed woodland every day and the sycamores are popping up everywhere, but I have yet to spot a beech seedling.
I'll make a point of getting off my bike this evening on the way home - I wanted to pick up a sample of Triassic sandstone in any case ...

 

[StoneRoad]

The flickr label says venus fly trap.

which is wrong, imo, one thing to consider is that the very first seed leaves can be very different, when compared to the "normal" leaves - which has caught me out before !
Beech seedling would be my guess, not sycamore - the latter are long and narrow.

 

[bi0boy]

It looks very beech with that hairy leaf bud

 

[ringo]

My eldest daughter and I decided on the way to work/school this morning that our mission this summer was to learn to identify all the major native British trees by sight. We've had a tree/leaf ID book for years but rarely remember to carry it with us. Need to have a trawl through Amazon or similar for another book to complement our leaf ID one. Recommendations gratefully received.

 

[gentlegreen]

I still hear people rating "The Observer's Book of..." series - probably now out of print...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...es&rh=n:266239,k:The+Observer's+Book+of+trees

 

[StoneRoad]

I got my copy of that from a "curio" shop with a small shelf of books - after having trawled various second-hand / charity shops for several months .................... only paid £1.25 so a bargain.

The main benefit is the size.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The flickr label says venus fly trap.

Its my flickr picture, and it just reminded me of one

 

[Callie]

Its my flickr picture, and it just reminded me of one

can you change the name to 'big scary BUM' to avoid any confusion?

 

[ringo]

I still hear people rating "The Observer's Book of..." series - probably now out of print...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=The+Observer's+Book+of+trees&rh=n:266239,k:The+Observer's+Book+of+trees

Great, I just grabbed a copy for two squid, ta

 

[bi0boy]

There's a whole field of these surrounded by fields of wheat.

Is it a pea?

 

[Leafster]

It's a Broad Bean plant.

 

[StoneRoad]

Agreed, Broad Beans - but may be one of the varieties grown as animal feed, although it may have leaf cutters about; look at the leaf margins.

 

[Callie]

It's a Broad Bean plant.

agreed!

 

[Leafster]

Agreed, Broad Beans - but may be one of the varieties grown as animal feed, although it may have leaf cutters about; look at the leaf margins.

I spotted the leaf margins when I was looking for Blackfly!

 

[BoatieBird]

I think broad beans are sometimes grown not as a crop, but to fix the nitrogen in the soil.
Sometimes the fields near us that normally have rape in them have broad beans every now and then.
I could, of course, be completely wrong on this

 

[gentlegreen]

and possibly cut as sileage
May even be "field beans"

http://www.ukagriculture.com/crops/field_beans_uk.cfm

 

[StoneRoad]

Yeah, green fertiliser, I missed that, despite doing it myself ! you grow "field beans" as a crop then "dig in the tops without removing the roots" - at least on the market garden / allotment scale.
On the field scale, I think you just harvest and plough in after the plants have died back, it is a productive alternative to a leaving a field fallow. On a mixed farm you put livestock in to graze the tops directly then the manure produced can also be ploughed in, which gives the land "more heart" - according to family lore.