What is this bush/tree/plant?

[danny la rouge]

Ok I'm pretty sure it's "creeping cinquefoil"

Yup, looks like it. Creeping cinquefoil/RHS Gardening

 

[fishfinger]

Shore pine, Pinus contorta.

Thank you

 

[campanula]

Shore pine, Pinus contorta.

Very difficult to tell without looking at the number of needles (between 2-5 usually) on each foliage cluster.
Could equally be the stone pine - pinus pinea...Any way of counting how many needles emerge from each individual needle cluster?
Um, I grow pinus contorta myself (aka lodgepole pine) so will go and check on the needle count.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Could someone please ID this tree for me please?

Growing in the street in Brixton.

The seed casings are all over the grojnd, I assume they’re last year’s waste but I can’t see any blossoms or baby seeds on the tree. It’s quite tall, no lower boughs, so they may all be out of view.

I could only find one leaf to photograph, and it’s got some damage but I reckon if someone knows the tree it will be apparent.

I’ve also included a photo of the bark too.

Thanks Urban x

 

[Calamity1971]

Lime has a heart shaped leaf.
Lime | Woodlands.co.uk

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Lime has a heart shaped leaf.
Lime | Woodlands.co.uk

It’s definitely not lime. I know the Linden well. These leaves are much larger, and smoother in appearance too, with no serration on the edges


This is a Linden leaf.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I don’t think my street tree is a native, although of course I could be wrong about that.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

HAving googled it all by myself why didn’t I do that earlier....

I think it could be Paulownia tomentosa.... Empress tree.

Apparently it’s considered a bit of a pest in North America.

The blossom looks lovely in the google gallery, I’ll be sure to go back and visit in blossom season.

 

[Artaxerxes]

HAving googled it all by myself why didn’t I do that earlier....

I think it could be Paulownia tomentosa.... Empress tree.

Apparently it’s considered a bit of a pest in North America.

The blossom looks lovely in the google gallery, I’ll be sure to go back and visit in blossom season.

Ah if you'd snapped the blossoms I'd have been in there, there's one growing near me and nearly fell off my bike first time I saw it. It's like a tree covered in foxgloves.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Ah if you'd snapped the blossoms I'd have been in there, there's one growing near me and nearly fell off my bike first time I saw it. It's like a tree covered in foxgloves.

It is also called the foxglove tree!

I’ll definitely make a point to go back and look at it in blossom season. It’s on the street I don’t usually go along.

Apparently, it’s used to treat hair loss and graying hair, as well as other things.

 

[Artaxerxes]

It is also called the foxglove tree!

I’ll definitely make a point to go back and look at it in blossom season. It’s on the street I don’t usually go along.

Apparently, it’s used to treat hair loss and graying hair, as well as other things.

Yeah its how I found it first time, just googled foxglove tree. Apparently they used to plant it when a girl was born then make a dresser out of it when she married at 16, 18 or what have you.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Yeah its how I found it first time, just googled foxglove tree. Apparently they used to plant it when a girl was born then make a dresser out of it when she married at 16, 18 or what have you.

A dresser? Like a hope chest or something? To keep her linens and frocks in?

 

[smmudge]

Not a plant but a funky dude, on my car. Not huge but not small. If I upload it here I can google image it

 

[smmudge]

Well google was rubbish.

Help me gardeners.

 

[Callie]

Dem legs were made for swimming I reckon

 

[smmudge]

My sister got it.

It's a backswimmer - notonecta glauca Common Backswimmer | NatureSpot

Preys on tadpoles and small fish apparently

 

[Artaxerxes]

Not eeen this with flowers before, a widespread ground creeping weed outside



This is something I’ve planted I think but I’m buggered if I remember what, nothing much came up on the pot so it might just be a weed.

 

[Calamity1971]

Not eeen this with flowers before, a widespread ground creeping weed outside

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This is something I’ve planted I think but I’m buggered if I remember what, nothing much came up on the pot so it might just be a weed.

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Top one looks like part of the yarrow family. Same leaves.
Bottom one looks like willow herb family. Maybe great willowherb.
Sorry if a bit vague.

 

[Leafster]

I agree with Calamity1971 about the first one. A yarrow (achillea) of some kind

I thing the bottom one is something from the nettle family. Lamium maculatum, maybe, a dead-nettle.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Dwarf pink yarrow is right, I'll have to check the other more though not sure is nettle or willowherb.

 

[Calamity1971]

Dwarf pink yarrow is right, I'll have to check the other more though not sure is nettle or willowherb.

Ive exhausted my wildflower books and can't find the second one. At least me and Leafster got one out of two. If you find out what it is please post.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I suspect it's a variety of sage but don't quote me on that

 

[campanula]

First one is achillea (millefolium).
Second one...well definitely in the labiatae family for sure...so yep, could be a salvia or stachys, skullcap, teucrium. betony et al. Will get my field guides out.

OK, the pink tends me to look at clinopodium vulgare, aka wild basil. Having not much idea of scale, it is hard to get a feel for the actual size of the corolla...or even the overall plant.

 

[Artaxerxes]

First one is achillea (millefolium).
Second one...well definitely in the labiatae family for sure...so yep, could be a salvia or stachys, skullcap, teucrium. betony et al. Will get my field guides out.

OK, the pink tends me to look at clinopodium vulgare, aka wild basil. Having not much idea of scale, it is hard to get a feel for the actual size of the corolla...or even the overall plant.

Yeah I'd just figured it out, yes it's wild basil! Good work.

Rummaged through my seed packets and gave it a sniff

 

[ska invita]

Rescued from an office...I think it might be treeish though?
Need to find out if it can survive outside in a pot

 

[gentlegreen]

Zamioculcas - Wikipedia (I think)

It'll love it outdoors while it's still warm ..

 

[ska invita]

Zamioculcas - Wikipedia (I think)

It'll love it outdoors while it's still warm ..

Thanks! "It can be kept outdoors as long as the temperature does not fall below around 15 °C"....i think its going to need to come back in!!

 

[gentlegreen]

It'll slow down at lower temps, but 7 degrees C is regarded as the absolute minimum for conservatory plants.

 

[Bomber]

Can anyone tell me what these are please?

 

[gentlegreen]

Animal or vegetable ?