Plant ID

Grenage

Any idea what this plant might be? It's cropped up in a few locations, but seems to do very well in the shade.

Appeared last year and died back, has come back even bigger.  No flowers last year or yet this year. I really like it and fancy some more.

twopenny

Nope. I give up.
It looks like so many that it's not. Search doesn't help.
Can you look in neighbours gardens to try and match? By the size of the leaves its going to be massive!
I like it too 

Flugelhorn

The leaves look a bit liek a young fig plant 

Grenage

The only thing I can see in the neighbour's garden that is close are hollyhocks, but these leaves absolutely dwarf the neighbour's.

I wonder if it might be growing larger leaves because it is in the shade.

twopenny

Not as deep cut as fig or hollyhock.

Do you know anyone with the plant identifier app?

Like your path by the way

Grenage

The path was the first thing I noticed when we moved here!

I gave plantid a go and it has suggested 21% chance of hollyhock, and <1% for anything else.  I guess I'll know if it flowers.

I'm tempted to take root cuttings if it is, to see if I can get a few more.

Mojisola

I've used an ident page and it's suggesting Malva verticillata - not a plant I know.

fatbelly

Google lens also says Malva verticillata - Chinese Mallow. If so, it's edible but I'd hang on before serving it as a vegetable because I'm not 100% convinced yet.

theoretica

Mallow seems a good call - but the leaves look a bit shiny- are the leaves at all furry/hairy on the underside?  Malva arborea is biennial so if it is that it would flower this year.

Dustyevsky

The leaves are rather too deeply lobed and shiny to look obviously like the suggestions so far, but that doesn't rule them out.

Sorry, I have no helpful suggestions to add, but I want to be on this thread when it flowers!

Grenage

The undersides aren't particularly furry, there is a little fur along the veins of the leaves.

The other two are much smaller; I went around the neighbour's this morning and compared those to his hollyhocks.  They look almost identical, but it's possible his hollyhocks aren't hollyhocks.

Might just need to wait for some flowers to appear (if they ever do without decent sunlight).

The other two are about a third of the size, if that.  I suppose it could just be a freak specimen, or it really likes being beneath a tree.  Here is one of the others for comparison.