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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This is a violet, a very common wildflower



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Looks like wild violet I think. One of the weeds that gets a free pass in my garden 😀 It can be very vigorous if it is happy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭tiredcity


    Thanks a mil both of you! Thought it might be violet but wasn't sure. Just planted a big herbaceous border and it's running riot but perhaps better than some of the other intruders and at least it's ground cover while things grow in...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Any ideas what this is - growing in my “lawn”?!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think its this stuff - apparently poisonous so take care with it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Holy Diver




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,522 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭thejaguar


    Can anyone tell me what this is? It's grown up through the middle of another plant at lightning speed over the summer.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Looks like a goat willow. In fact anything that comes up with speed and looks tree-ish in the middle of another plant is usually a goat willow. Try and get it out, I wouldn't bother trying to rescue it, just rescue your plant!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭thejaguar


    Oh dear - I hope I haven't left it too late for that. It's looking pretty formidable.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭Boots234


    Hi, could someone tell me what the weeds attached are in the photos attached please? I noticed them in a patch of the lawn a few weeks ago but they have spread rapidly. The lawn is about half an acre in size, what are my options to get rid of them? Thanks




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It appears to be creeping buttercup, though its a bit hard to see. It seems most likely. My 'lawn' is about 70% creeping buttercup, I just keep mowing it, its green, what harm? It does tend to creep into all the non-lawn bits of garden though!

    You could try using a selective weedkiller for lawns, but its pretty tough stuff and you probably won't have much grass left when it is gone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,522 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,522 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I'm note sure what your game is, or how you get amusement from this, but I had no doubts about anything.

    #IGNORE.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe





  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Am I the only one who sees that ^^^ as a blank post?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭thejaguar




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Me too and I don't remember doing it! 😃

    Sorry.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i remember someone years ago posted a guide to IDing pine trees - for example, a lot of the differences between say corsican pine and scots pine can be subtle, IIRC. does anyone have any pointers for a guide to do this?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Can someone tell me what plant this is, please? It was a woody branch in a bunch of flowers I was given, I don't know if it's a shrub or a tree. Thanks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Is it Parvifolia, one of the Eucalyptus family I think.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Thanks Looksee, I had a look on the web but the leaves aren't quite the same (especially in how they're attached to the branch), at least from what I can see.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭standardg60


    I immediately thought willow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes I considered willow, but willow leaves are generally wilty, I had a branch of that stuff in some flowers over Christmas and it lasted at least a month! It seems to have much more robust leaves than willow, and I know a lot of florists' foliage is basically eucalyptus so that was a first thought. Come to think of it though my branch might well have been Parvifolia, I don't recall the leaves were quite the same as NH's sample, they were more pointy.

    Whatever it is it would have to be something that could be pollarded pretty much, in order to be able to harvest the huge quantities they would need.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Yes, the leaves are quite rounded at the tip and regular in the way they are attached to the stem. The main branch (and branch it was, not just a stem), was as thick as a thumb. Unfortunately this one has almost wilted, but I'll take another picture later of what's left. My mind kept bouncing among willow, olive and jujube and rejecting all three for different reasons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Olive was my first thought. Branch shape looks right. Leafs maybe a bit to round.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Thanks, but I'm sure it's not an olive, either - the leaves are the wrong colour and consistency and so is the wood and, in this case, too, how the leaves are attached to the branch (imparipinnate, I think the term is).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I had always been under the impression that pinnate leaves just referred to the pairs of leaves and that the one at the end was a given, I have just looked up imparipinnate and find my impression was wrong!



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'll admit I found that out myself 10 mins before I posted that....😊



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Lol, google is a great yoke for upping our skillz 😀



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I use Ecosia.org - they've a great privacy policy AND every search you do plants a tree. They've lots of information on their homepage. 🙂🌳



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭leck


    Can anyone ID this please. Shrub or small tree. In bloom now. Very fragrant.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think its a vibernum bodnantense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭shoutman


    I wonder if someone can ID this weed that is growing under and within some climbing rose bushes that I have in my garden - trying to figure out a way to kill it without negatively impacting my rose bushes (which are growing wild and definitely need a good pruning!)




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Brambles/blackberry.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Looks like that to me as well. I find the roots not to be too difficult to dig out once you can avoid the thorns on the stem when you trace them back to where it is growing out of the ground. A loppers can help renove parts of the stem (and some rose branches if needed) to make the base more approachable. Might be a bit more awkward if the roots are knotted in with the rose plant but a trowel or a good garden fork would be the way I'd approach getting it out anyway. A bramble that size would not have a big root in my experience. Just be sure to bury the rose plant roots again if they get exposed by the digging.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,522 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Briars that size are easily pulled out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭rn


    Looking for some help with this tree. There are 3 of them, growing together in a remote part of the farm. From what I've seen, there's nothing else like them around the area.

    Would like to try to grow some more nearer my house, but need to identify them first. Are they native Irish?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Scots Pine. There is a small native population in Co Clare. Beautiful trees, well worth planting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Yes Scots Pine. I was delighted lately to get a present of five potted trees about 45cms tall to plant in a woodland I am developing. Was told they came fro Clare so may be the same you mentioned.

    Might be worth seeking self seeded plants near the existing trees.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭rn


    I'm a long way from county clare, in South roscommon. They are on the boundary between two fields. I'll have to look to see if there are any seedlings in a few weeks on the ground underneath, before hedge undergrowth chokes anything. We had very hard frosts this week here. But failing that, I guess I'll have to watch for cones next autumn and see can I collect a few with a long pole. They would be ideal at the edge of my garden in 40 years...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭RainInSummer


    They have shallow enough root systems, don't plant them too close to the house!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭rn


    Should be between 20 - 80m from the house



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That would be one heck of a tree at 80m!



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭Banbh


    The Scots Pine is a native and you'll see them around the country if you keep a look out. They are very distinctive and majestic. You can get them for a couple of euro from futureforests.ie.



  • Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Fern Bench


    A stunning tree indeed. The growth habit is remarkable the way they just go straight out on the horizontal like that. I've never seen anything quite like it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The general shape looks like Scots Pine, but its a bit blurry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    I've been told this is Wood Sorrel but I don't think so. Anyone got any idea?




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The leaves make me think of some sort of peony, if I'm honest. I have one that only bloomed once and the flowers were single and pale pink, like a dog rose.

    Then again, a reverse image search in Google returns "Anemone Canadensis"/"Anemone Nemorosa"...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,263 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    100% Anemone and I'd tend towards Anemone Nemorosa - Wood Anemone, because the leaves are sort of bigger on Canadensis.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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