Plant ID Thread (Merged)

humphriess

Thanks for all the help. Thought they were probably weeds but thought i'd better check. Will try putting the bottom one in a salad when i dig it up. Thanks everyone for your help. (p.s. am proud of my beetroot - first time to grow anything successfully)

Davesnave

RAS got them both. For goodness sake don't put the euphorbia (spurge) in a salad! The milky sap is a fairly strong alkaloid poison. When we were kids, we used to make new members of our gang put a drop on their tongue. Even if they immediately spat it out, the burning sensation lasted at least an hour. Nice lads, we were!:rotfl:

humphriess

thanks for the heads up Davesnave. Luckily the heavy rain has prevented me from picking and eating it today.:rotfl:

RAS

EEk - sorry. The fat hen is good to eat - very similar to tree spinach. The euphorbia is definitely not.

wssla00

I have an arch, and climbing up the arch on one side is a green plant with lots of sprouting shoots. I had just bought a jasmine plant and it looked like that, so assumed it was jasmine, but I have had another look and there are small purple berries starting to grow on it. I haven't seen the garden in spring yet so no idea what it is

Does anyone have any idea what it might be? Could it be black currants? It looks that type of berry.

Many thanks

peter_the_piper

Pic please and DON'T eat the berries.

wssla00

lol I wont eat them. Will grab a pic tomorrow when its sunny again

sunflower76

Could it be honeysuckle? Although it doesn't really look like Jasmine!

I can't think of anything that has berries at this time of year unless they are left over from last year but you say they are growing. Are you cdertain that they aren't buds?

as the above poster says, a picture would be great

conradmum

The only thing I think it could be is ivy.

wssla00

hi all,


here is a picture of the plant

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f194/wssla00/Unknown%20plant%20in%20my%20garden/

I hope i have done this right. Thanks for all of your replies