What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Calamity1971]

Can anyone tell me what this is?
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Cuckoo pint. Arum ? Woodland plant.

 

[Calamity1971]

Arum maculatum - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[BoatieBird]

Arum maculatum - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Of course
Thanks Calamity1971

 

[two sheds]

looks like lords & ladies but probably isn't

Eta: HA!!!!

 

[Calamity1971]

looks like lords & ladies but probably isn't

Eta: HA!!!!

Yes it is. Also known as Cuckoo pint.
Oops,just seen ya ETA

 

[gentlegreen]

Supposed to be confusable with Common Sorrel, Garden Sorrel, Narrow Leaved Dock, Spinach Dock, Rumex acetosa ... perhaps when young - personally I have an aversion to anything with a lot of oxalate ...

 

[iona]

This week in Mystery Plants I've Decided To Rescue


Anyone want a guess?

 

[Leafster]

Crocosmia bulbs?

 

[surreybrowncap]

I don't want to be at that barbecue .....

 

[gentlegreen]

Crocosmia bulbs?

Indeed - I'm jealous - damn I'm probably going to order some now - amazing I managed to kill all mine

 

[Leafster]

Indeed - I'm jealous - damn I'm probably going to order some now - amazing I managed to kill all mine

If you were nearby I'd offer to dig some up for you. They do have a habit of spreading themselves about a bit in my garden.

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't want to be at that barbecue .....

I had to look it up - they apparently sometimes extract a yellow food dye from the flowers as a saffron substitute ..

 

[gentlegreen]

If you were nearby I'd offer to dig some up for you. They do have a habit of spreading themselves about a bit in my garden.

Thanks

To be honest I don't really have a suitable niche at the moment.
I failed with them because I tried to grow them in a container so I could move them about ...

 

[iona]

Crocosmia bulbs?

Nope (though I have endless amounts of those if anyone wants some).

Only possibilities I can think of from that garden are cyclamen or something hesperantha-y...

 

[gentlegreen]

Nope (though I have endless amounts of those if anyone wants some).

Only possibilities I can think of from that garden are cyclamen or something hesperantha-y...

def not cyclamen, but hesperantha is also in the Iridaceae

 

[geminisnake]

Indeed - I'm jealous - damn I'm probably going to order some now - amazing I managed to kill all mine

I have orange ones in the garden, if you pm an address I could send some to you?

Could they be freesia bulbs Iona?

 

[StoneRoad]

iona - I think those are crocosmia, given that some of them are "stacked"

 

[iona]

iona - I think those are crocosmia, given that some of them are "stacked"

There's definitely not any crocosmia in the garden they came from...

 

[two sheds]

montbretia then?


I've done this joke before

 

[gentlegreen]

I have orange ones in the garden, if you pm an address I could send some to you?

That's very kind, but I wouldn't do them justice.
I hope to have a new garden in a few years time with the right sort of microclimate

 

[gentlegreen]

Those so are crocosmia - I have memories of those things going back to the 1960s
They're everywhere in Cornwall as two sheds will confirm.
I went on a tour of a tin mine some years ago and they reckoned it was the fault of Tin miners emigrating to South Africa when the tin became unprofitable and bringing corms back with them when they retired back home...

 

[iona]

I'll stick them in my garden and see what happens, there's already loads of crocosmia there anyway. Would love to know how those ended up buried a good foot down in a compost heap in a crocosmia-free private garden though!

 

[Calamity1971]

Another vote for crocosmia here. Be good if it's the Lucifer one. I'm not keen on the orange as it invades very quickly.

 

[campanula]

I think they are gladioli. The crocosmia seem to makemuch longer chains of corms...whereas I have just dug out a selection of glads and yours are awfully similar.

I used to like crocosmia...and am still very fond of a variety called 'Hellfire' but of late, mine have become impossibly weedy and all revert to a nasty orange/red "Emily Mackenzie' type which is sadly nondescript. Fed up with Lucifer too.

 

[Idaho]

I already looked this up already on lens, but I thought I'd post it up for the satisfaction of those who can identify by eye.

 

[Calamity1971]

I already looked this up already on lens, but I thought I'd post it up for the satisfaction of those who can identify by eye.
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Jack by the hedge/ garlic mustard.

 

[Calamity1971]

You must be south Idaho? No flowers on the ones in hedgerows here.

 

[Idaho]

You must be south Idaho? No flowers on the ones in hedgerows here.

Taken at about 50.4 degrees north

 

[gentlegreen]

Taken at about 50.4 degrees north

Definitely darn sarth. I'll have a look out in Bristol at 51.5...

 

[Calamity1971]

54 on a hill, deffo no flowers here.