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What is this plant?

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What is this plant?

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Postby Slarti » August 24th, 2018, 12:54 pm

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Self seeded into our garden and we left it while it was just a green stem, but now it has sprouted green/brown bits on the top.

Is it actually wheat or something?


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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby Breelander » August 24th, 2018, 3:34 pm

Slarti wrote:Self seeded into our garden and we left it while it was just a green stem, but now it has sprouted green/brown bits on the top.

Is it actually wheat or something?


Close, looks like a Millet to me. Compare with this photo...
https://www.sherckseeds.com/wp-content/ ... by-750.jpg
...from this site: https://www.sherckseeds.com/seeds/grain ... rd-millet/

Do you feed the birds? If so, looks like one of them dropped a bit of their lunch ;)

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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby Slarti » August 24th, 2018, 4:20 pm

Breelander wrote:
Slarti wrote:Self seeded into our garden and we left it while it was just a green stem, but now it has sprouted green/brown bits on the top.

Is it actually wheat or something?


Close, looks like a Millet to me. Compare with this photo...
https://www.sherckseeds.com/wp-content/ ... by-750.jpg
...from this site: https://www.sherckseeds.com/seeds/grain ... rd-millet/

Do you feed the birds? If so, looks like one of them dropped a bit of their lunch ;)


I think that you're right with that, though not that particular one.

We do feed the birds, but not with millet. But there are at least 2 adjoining gardens with bird feeders, so who knows?

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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby BhotiPila » September 1st, 2018, 9:09 pm

It is a Sorghum. There are about 25 species. Yours could be Sorghum bicolor? Here it is at Kew - a bit healthier than yours!

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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby Mike4 » September 5th, 2021, 12:55 pm

Rather than start a new thread, I've another "What is this plant?" question.

This is a low level plant of which I have masses in my garden. It spreads like wildfire but never seems to flower or do anything interesting, unless I missed it. DAK what it is please?

This a section snipped off and photographed against a white painted wall to hopefully make it easier to see, with a hand in the pic for scale.

Many thanks if anyone knows what it is, and/or knows if there is an easy way to get rid of it or at least slow it up!


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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby servodude » September 6th, 2021, 2:40 am

Mike4 wrote:This is a low level plant of which I have masses in my garden. It spreads like wildfire but never seems to flower or do anything interesting, unless I missed it. DAK what it is please?


The leaves are giving off privet vibes
- especially if those berries turn black

If it is then you can probably treat it as you would laurel i.e. try everything known to man, give up and move house
- or take up topiary

- sd

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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby Mike4 » September 6th, 2021, 7:59 am

servodude wrote:
Mike4 wrote:This is a low level plant of which I have masses in my garden. It spreads like wildfire but never seems to flower or do anything interesting, unless I missed it. DAK what it is please?


The leaves are giving off privet vibes
- especially if those berries turn black

If it is then you can probably treat it as you would laurel i.e. try everything known to man, give up and move house
- or take up topiary

- sd


Thanks sd. This is the conclusion I'm coming to too, especially as there is a large hedge about 50 yds long nearby, with on reflection, similar leaves. I originally dismissed privet as my grandparents had well-kept privet hedges which I used to cut as a child, and the leaves were much smaller and paler in colour than these.

Anyway, knowing what it is and its characteristics is helpful. Looks like I need to just buy a petrol strimmer....

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Re: What is this plant?

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Postby monabri » September 6th, 2021, 8:55 am

Using "Google Lens" to take a photo of your photo....common privet is what Lens suggests.


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