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Help to identify plant Please

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  • 04-08-2017 1:35pm
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    kali291
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    Can anyone tell me what this is please?


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    Oldtree
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    It looks like some sort of corn.


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    DuMorph
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    Looks like rice-

    stock-photo-ear-of-rice-isolated-on-white-background-343826519.jpg


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    kali291
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    Thank you! Think it probably is rice.


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    kylith
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    Weird, I was told rice wont' grow in Ireland, we don't get a long enough hot spell for it.


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    Oldtree
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    DuMorph wrote: »
    Looks like rice-

    That's a first for me, nice one. For some reason I've never seen a rice plant before.

    Will be very interesting to see if you can ripen.it fully and cook it.

    Can you show the pot you are growing it in please? Does it need a lot of water. Where did you u get it? When did you plant it? It looks very healthy.


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    kali291
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    Oldtree wrote:
    Will be very interesting to see if you can ripen.it fully and cook it.

    Oldtree wrote:
    Can you show the pot you are growing it in please? Does it need a lot of water. Where did you u get it? When did you plant it? It looks very healthy.

    Oldtree wrote:
    That's a first for me, nice one. For some reason I've never seen a rice plant before.

    The plant is actually growing in my sister's garden in the UK (Suffolk). Nobody planted it - it just appeared and she left it to flower to find out what it was.


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    DuMorph
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    Oldtree wrote: »
    That's a first for me, nice one. For some reason I've never seen a rice plant before.

    Will be very interesting to see if you can ripen.it fully and cook it.

    Can you show the pot you are growing it in please? Does it need a lot of water. Where did you u get it? When did you plant it? It looks very healthy.

    That's just a stock photo I found on google; the plant looked familiar from watching a documentary about the river Ganges-


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    macraignil
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    kali291 wrote: »
    The plant is actually growing in my sister's garden in the UK (Suffolk). Nobody planted it - it just appeared and she left it to flower to find out what it was.


    The grains on the stock photo of the rice look longer to me but this could be just down to the stage of maturity being different. Not convinced it is rice if you say it has free seeded itself in Suffolk. There are thousands of grass varieties and I think it's more likely to be some variety of ornamental grass from a neighbors garden. Might be worth looking over her neighbors wall to see if they have something similar and if so ask them what it is.


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    Lumen
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    <Insert paddy joke here>


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    looksee
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    I did a quick bit of research on Google Images and it appears there is a variety of rice that has those round grains.


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    kylith
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    The leaves look all wrong for it to be rice, imo. Rice tends to grow from the base rather than off the stem, IIRC.

    IMG_0215.JPG


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    Chuchote
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    Maybe ask on the farming forum?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=845


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    looksee
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    Check out millet.


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    kylith
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    looksee wrote: »
    Check out millet.

    Bingo, I'd say. Seeded from a bird feeder, most like.


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