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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • #1352
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Bixy wrote: »
    Euonymus, possibly fortunei , good as coastal hedge

    Thanks Bixy, knew there was something familiar about the stem I seen before but couldn't make the connection. Spindle tree family.

    Thanks again much appreciated.


  • #1353
    bungaro79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    Hi all
    Just noticed this in my raspberry plant pot? Is it honey fungus??


  • #1354
    New Home
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    If it is, it's quite old.


  • #1355
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I don't know what they are, but I just rooted a ton of them out of my raised bed, where they were very happy!


  • #1356
    Toulouse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    We haven’t gotten around to doing anything with the garden of the house we bought. We have a monster growing at the back wall that I need help to ID.

    Thanks in advance


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  • #1357
    New Home
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    A picture would help.


  • #1358
    Toulouse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    Photos were too large, didn’t realise the post had actually gone through!

    First one is the monster, second is some kind of shrub I need help with too.


  • #1359
    Bixy
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Bixy


    Echium pinniana - It is a monster - lives for two years, then dies, will grow to about 2 m in its second year - loved by bees but sheds prolific seed so you will be weeding "babies" for a long time. Google and see if you like the look of the plant in its second year - spectacular but a possible nuisance down the line with its offspring! Not native.


  • #1360
    Bixy
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Bixy


    Sorry Toulouse - only looked at first picture - second one looks like a rhododendron to me, but others may disagree?


  • #1361
    lottpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭lottpaul


    Echiums are beloved by many and not so popular with others - it is a spectacular plant though. The second one won't enlarge properly for me but looks like a rhodo of some sort.


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  • #1362
    Toulouse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    Oh wow! That’s amazing, we’re very excited to see what colour it will be!! We’ll be leaving it where it is, no plans to do anything major with the garden for at least another year. :D

    Thank you all!


  • #1363
    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    There are some echiums growing in the garden in Farmleigh House.

    Mostly pale blue but I saw them at the end of the season so they may have been more colourful earlier.

    They must reach about 12 feet and are truly spectacular. You need lots of space and you will have to careful not to allow too many seedlings to develop.
    Please do post photos when it flowers next year.


  • #1364
    Toulouse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    Will do!

    No idea where it came from but sure it’s the most exciting thing that’s happened in months :)


  • #1365
    New Home
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    https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/largest-inventory-of-known-plant-species-published-2020-11-26/


  • #1366
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's some amazing piece of work!


  • #1367
    depcon
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭depcon


    Can anyone identify this plant . Found behind my shed this afternoon. Is it Japanese knotweed.


  • #1368
    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Not japanese knotweed. hard to tell without leaves. Thought it might be ash as it seeds very easily but can't see the black buds.

    Cut to ground level or below and keep cutting it until it disappears altogether.


  • #1369
    depcon
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭depcon


    Have a photo of the last remaining leaf.


  • #1370
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Looks like a cherry sapling .is there a cherry tree anywhere near


  • #1371
    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Branches look much redder in that picture. Agree it might be a cherry.


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  • #1372
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,627 ✭✭✭corks finest


    wildwillow wrote: »
    Branches look much redder in that picture. Agree it might be a cherry.
    Ay

    Laurel type?


  • #1373
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    depcon wrote: »
    Can anyone identify this plant . Found behind my shed this afternoon. Is it Japanese knotweed.

    I think this is Grey Willow. It will seed anywhere.


  • #1374
    rje66
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭rje66


    Willow for me too.


  • #1375
    sidcon
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭sidcon


    Anyone any idea what this is. It has grown in our vegetable trough out the back garden,


  • #1376
    sidcon
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭sidcon


    Anyone any idea what this is. It has grown in our vegetable trough out the back garden,

    Identify it https://imgur.com/gallery/ZhME3rE


  • #1377
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    It might be Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, but I have a suspicion that this is Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisifolia, a North American plant. You do not want this in your garden; it produces more pollen than any other plant, but this is not a good thing, it causes serious problems for anyone with allergy/respiratory issues. Get rid before it flowers.


  • #1378
    LaChatteGitane
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭LaChatteGitane


    Feverfew ?


  • #1379
    sidcon
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭sidcon


    blaris wrote: »
    It might be Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, but I have a suspicion that this is Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisifolia, a North American plant. You do not want this in your garden; it produces more pollen than any other plant, but this is not a good thing, it causes serious problems for anyone with allergy/respiratory issues. Get rid before it flowers.

    Thanks, pulled out now, 3 asthmatic and 2 with heyfever in the house so won't take the chance.


  • #1380
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,627 ✭✭✭corks finest


    blaris wrote: »
    It might be Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, but I have a suspicion that this is Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisifolia, a North American plant. You do not want this in your garden; it produces more pollen than any other plant, but this is not a good thing, it causes serious problems for anyone with allergy/respiratory issues. Get rid before it flowers.

    See that or something vv similar in some of pine forests


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  • #1381
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Azalea?

    Riiiiight....

    https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/plants-flowers/azalea-amour/p7377


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