What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Artaxerxes]

Any ideas what this is?

 

[gentlegreen]

rhubarb ?

 

[Artaxerxes]

rhubarb ?

I did wonder but thought the stalks were red

 

[gentlegreen]

I did wonder but thought the stalks were red

Not always.
Other alternatives would be sea beet or sea kale, but doesn't look right ... it could be another member of the Polygonaceae ..

Roughly where in the world is it located ?

 

[campanula]

looks like rheum palmatum - ornamental rhubarb...although I have never grown it myself, (too dry where I am) and the leaves are just not quite right. Deffo in the polygonaceae tho'.

 

[Artaxerxes]

It is on an old plot, so rhubarb sounds the most likely culprit.

Never seen it in flower though so.

 

[editor]

Any idea what this is? It's growing fast (about 1 metre high now after being what looked like a dormant stick for ages).

I fear it's the dreaded Tree of Heaven which is, by all accounts, a bit of a rotter. Am I right?

The Tree of Heaven (1)

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[gentlegreen]

Any idea what this is? It's growing fast (about 1 metre high now after being what looked like a dormant stick for ages).

I fear it's the dreaded Tree of Heaven which is, by all accounts, a bit of a rotter. Am I right?

The Tree of Heaven (1)

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ash ?
any more photos ?

 

[gentlegreen]

By all accounts the invasive species you mention has a particular smell ...

Ailanthus altissima smell - Google Search

 

[Idaho]

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Any idea what this is? It's growing fast (about 1 metre high now after being what looked like a dormant stick for ages).

I fear it's the dreaded Tree of Heaven which is, by all accounts, a bit of a rotter. Am I right?

The Tree of Heaven (1)

Woodland for sale throughout the UK, including woods for sale in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Advice on buying a wood, as well woodland activities, flora and fauna, conservation and other woodlandy topics.

www.woodlands.co.uk

Ash was my first instinct. Ygrasil, the Nordic world tree was an ash. Perhaps you can summon Odin.

 

[two sheds]

Looks like ash to me - has it got black buds?

 

[editor]

Ooh, I think you must all be right! There was an ash tree in this particular post but it died about 2 years ago, but it's BACK!

#happy

 

[Epona]

Ooh, I think you must all be right! There was an ash tree in this particular post but it died about 2 years ago, but it's BACK!

#happy

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I think Ash is known for doing this - putting out side shoots and growing back from them and malarky of that nature - it's also the right time of year, it typically comes into leaf late, mid-May ish.

There is a massive (council owned) Ash tree right outside our flat and I fucking love it, it has been there probably since the estate was built in the mid 70s and is a magnificent and majestic thing of beauty. It brings me a lot of happiness in an otherwise quite concretey part of London. It is easy to see why it inspired Yggdrasil

 

[gentlegreen]

I should know this one

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[Calamity1971]

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Common knapweed/hard head ?

 

[StoneRoad]

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Knapweed, at least I think that's what it is.

 

[gentlegreen]

I hadn't considered that they were unopened flowers
I have plantain on the brain at the moment ...

EDIT :-

In the UK study published by the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One, the plant was even more noteworthy for being the top producer of both nectar and pollen, when the amount of each were compared with the pollen production of the highest nectar producers and vice versa. Of the six species that produced more nectar than this plant, none of them produced a significant amount of pollen. The top producer of nectar was ragwort and the top producer of pollen was corn poppy.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_nigra#cite_note-Meadows-2

Centaurea nigra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[campanula]

I should know this one

nectaroscordum siculum

 

[Calamity1971]

nectaroscordum siculum

Gives me honey garlic when I Google. You ever tried it ?
We need gentlegreen to have a munch on it of not

 

[gentlegreen]

Gives me honey garlic when I Google. You ever tried it ?
We need gentlegreen to have a munch on it of not

Makes you cry like onions apparently

Six years to flower from seed...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Slowly taking over the wildflower bed* at the plot




*a square foot I left to its own devices bar weeding out the grass occasionally

 

[gentlegreen]

Looks like evening primrose, but the tight rosette and branching look wrong.

 

[campanula]

Slowly taking over the wildflower bed* at the plot

I grew a particular hound's tongue last year, which has just finished flowering...but these are popping up on my plot too, so thinking they could be cynoglossum volunteers. The flowers, like most in the borage family, are blue (although cynoglossum hungaricum has deep red flowers). Do you grow scabious or knautia?

 

[Artaxerxes]

I grew a particular hound's tongue last year, which has just finished flowering...but these are popping up on my plot too, so thinking they could be cynoglossum volunteers. The flowers, like most in the borage family, are blue (although cynoglossum hungaricum has deep red flowers). Do you grow scabious or knautia?

I don't really grow flowers

 

[rubbershoes]

This is on the riverbank. Not sure what it is, maybe a lily?

 

[clicker]

Or an iris?

 

[campanula]

Yep, it is our common yellow flag - iris pseudacorus.

 

[chainsawjob]

This self-seeded in an empty plant pot, I've potted it up again and it's growing like mad, especially the main stem which is shooting up. I thought it was leycesteria formosa (which I've just learnt is Himalyan honeysuckle, which sounds worryingly like Himalyan balsam) but having looked at some pics I'm now not so sure. The leaves at the base are quite a different shape from the new growth at the top. I've grown leycesteria before though, and it was nice. Any ideas?

 

[gentlegreen]

This self-seeded in an empty plant pot, I've potted it up again and it's growing like mad, especially the main stem which is shooting up. I thought it was leycesteria formosa (which I've just learnt is Himalyan honeysuckle, which sounds worryingly like Himalyan balsam) but having looked at some pics I'm now not so sure. The leaves at the base are quite a different shape from the new growth at the top. I've grown leycesteria before though, and it was nice. Any ideas

Are you sure it's not two different plants ?
The lower leaves look a bit clematisy...