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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • #1652
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    rje66 wrote: »
    Possible from a variety of Alder. Are there any trees close by??

    Many, there's some pretty natural woodlands nearby with many types of trees but also gardens.
    Looking about I can't spot any obvious culprits, which seems odd because there's a lot of them about.

    I thought alder catkins were longer (50-70mm? These are 10mm or smaller), or perhaps these are parts of catkins?


  • #1653
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Possibly from conifers - Spruce maybe or Scots pine. If you crush them do they smell of anything that might be a clue?

    image of a Scots pine flower, looks about right

    https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FDAJDXJ%2Fscotch-pine-scots-pine-pinus-sylvestris-branch-with-male-flowers-germany-DAJDXJ.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alamy.com%2Fstock-photo-scotch-pine-scots-pine-pinus-sylvestris-branch-with-male-flowers-germany-58183738.html&tbnid=q7mFIVTznxXkfM&vet=10CAMQxiAoAGoXChMIkM7vrPGN8QIVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAc..i&docid=FlBw9j0cyOySVM&w=866&h=1390&itg=1&q=scots%20pine%20flowers&client=firefox-b-d&ved=0CAMQxiAoAGoXChMIkM7vrPGN8QIVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAc


  • #1654
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    tromtipp wrote: »
    Possibly from conifers - Spruce maybe or Scots pine. If you crush them do they smell of anything that might be a clue?

    image of a Scots pine flower, looks about right

    You've got it. There's a couple of Scots Pines just upwind of the garden and they look like they're making catkins.
    Hadn't considered them at all for some reason.

    Thanks.


  • #1655
    Vaccinated30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Vaccinated30


    Anyone know what this is. They close in the evening and open again late morning. They're not morning glory I never planted them and there's none nearby. They seem to trail if that makes sense


  • #1656
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Vaccinated30 wrote: »
    Anyone know what this is. They close in the evening and open again late morning. They're not morning glory I never planted them and there's none nearby. They seem to trail if that makes sense

    Chickweed, Stellaria media


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  • #1657
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Chickweed, Stellaria media

    Was just about to say that this one was for you blaris:D


  • #1658
    Vaccinated30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Vaccinated30


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Chickweed, Stellaria media

    Oh great and I'm watering it thinking it was a flower. I sprinkled loads of seeds back in march and forget what they all are now,typical.
    I just knew there was no morning glory. It actually is near where I planted Baby Breath (transfered outside) so I thought it was that but couldn't understand why I found it miles away from the baby breath.


  • #1659
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,032 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    In fairness, morning glory look like bindweed on steroids, this one didn't even have "trumpety" flowers.


  • #1660
    Granite Head
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Granite Head


    Weed or Wildflower?

    As you can see from the purple Toadflax growing in the background I have been less vigorous in my weeding this year and a number of "new" plants have established.

    Not sure what this one is, but it is quite pretty?

    TIA
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  • #1661
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus

    A cultivated flower, but one that's been around for centuries, and like the Red valerian mentioned elsethread, it often naturalises on old walls. There are plenty of trays of modern cultivars of this on sale in the garden centres, but the old varieties are better at getting through a few winters.

    http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=432


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  • #1662
    Granite Head
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Granite Head


    tromtipp wrote: »
    Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus

    http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=432

    Thank you, funny I went on that website first but didn't recognise it there. Obvious once pointed out.

    Presumably it is not too invasive. I would like it to increase in numbers - just let it self seed?

    TIA
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  • #1663
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Not really invasive at all - it may seed into old mortar or on gravel or soil. You could also try saving some seed and sowing it yourself - if nothing else it will get your eye in for what the self-sown seedlings look like.


  • #1664
    Holy Diver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Any ideas what this is?

    Some sort of climbing hydrangea?


  • #1665
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Hydrangea-anomala-subsp-petiolaris

    Nice plant


  • #1666
    swarmberg
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭swarmberg


    555815.jpg

    Anyone know what this is? Thanks


  • #1667
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Papaver orientale, oriental poppy but which one exactly would be harder to say. Perhaps Orange Glow?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #1668
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    swarmberg wrote: »
    555815.jpg

    Anyone know what this is? Thanks

    A poppy, Papaver orientale I think.


  • #1669
    ankaragucu
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭ankaragucu


    Hi, can anyone identify these please? They first appeared in a flower bed and I dug them up and potted up a few of them. Until I know what they are I don't really know what to do with them. Bit of a mystery in that loads of them appeared just in one area, as if a load of seeds had just dropped on the ground. Thanks for any help


  • #1670
    ankaragucu
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭ankaragucu


    Hi, can anyone identify these please? They first appeared in a flower bed and I dug them up and potted up a few of them. Until I know what they are I don't really know what to do with them. Bit of a mystery in that loads of them appeared just in one area, as if a load of seeds had just dropped on the ground. Thanks for any help


  • #1671
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    ^^^^^
    Picture?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • #1672
    ankaragucu
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭ankaragucu


    Hi, can anyone identify these please? They first appeared in a flower bed and I dug them up and potted up a few of them. Until I know what they are I don't really know what to do with them. Bit of a mystery in that loads of them appeared just in one area, as if a load of seeds had just dropped on the ground. Thanks for any help


  • #1673
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,032 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Again, picture? :)

    Instructions on how to attach it are here: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058085332


  • #1674
    Jlayay
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭Jlayay


    Anyone know if this is common hogweed?


  • #1675
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think it is common hogweed. The leaves look more like the common one and the plain green stem does too. Giant hogweed has almost thistle looking leaves - jagged and pointed, the flower head is more massed and the stems have purple blotches.

    Common hogweed can get very big, and can also be quite toxic - do not strim hogweed, the flying bits can do dreadful rash damage, handle with care though it is not as bad as the giant version.


  • #1676
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Looksee is so right about the sap, but it's easy to cut it back with secateurs on a cloudy day if you need to. In a wild corner with tall grasses, as in the image, it's a very good wildlife plant, and has one pollinator, Rhagonycha fulva, the Common red soldier beetle particularly associated with it. Check the wiki link for the common name beetle fanciers in England gave it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_red_soldier_beetle


  • #1677
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We have a complete infestation of common hogweed, we have had to make inroads into it or the entire garden would be nothing else. We did discover the red soldier beetles last year, enthusiastically doing what comes naturally :D


  • #1678
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    Hogweed burns can be permanent, and I wouldn't take the advice to do it on a cloudy day - that won't make much difference.
    Completely cover your skin.

    If you're going to do it by hand then I suggest a tree-lopper.

    Personally though I would just spray it with glyphosate.
    Stuff like this is one place where I have absolutely no hesitation using weed killer.


  • #1679
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Native (and giant) hogweed 'burns' are caused by phytophotodermatitis. The sap causes extreme sensitivity to ultra violet light. Without sunlight it can't harm you. The 'burns' heal after a while - I had a nasty pus filled blister on my neck a few years ago from a strimmer-blown scrap of leaf. Careless of me, and painful for a while, but no permanent harm done, and I'm careful to cover up now. Hogweed is far from the only plant that causes the effect.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis

    Personally I'd be much more scared of Glyphosate than of a native wildflower humans have shared the country with for millennia.


  • #1680
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    tromtipp wrote: »
    Native (and giant) hogweed 'burns' are caused by phytophotodermatitis. The sap causes extreme sensitivity to ultra violet light. Without sunlight it can't harm you.
    It's just dangerous to suggest doing it on a cloudy day as a safety precaution.
    Unless it's the dead of night then you're going to get burns. The levels of uv light hitting you on a cloudy day are very much enough to cause damage.
    tromtipp wrote: »
    The 'burns' heal after a while - I had a nasty pus filled blister on my neck a few years ago from a strimmer-blown scrap of leaf. Careless of me, and painful for a while, but no permanent harm done.
    The wounds will heal but photosensitivity can be permanent(/very long-lasting).
    (ie. you can be left getting sunburn on that patch all year round).
    tromtipp wrote: »
    Personally I'd be much more scared of Glyphosate than of a native wildflower humans have shared the country with for millennia.
    Why?

    It's not particularly harmful stuff, what effects it has is a result of it being extremely widely used, not in a very limited controlled manner as suggested here.
    tromtipp wrote: »
    native wildflower humans have shared the country with for millennia.
    So what? Times change. Should we live "Just like in the good old days" of living to a ripe old age of 35?


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  • #1681
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Or 105, depending on your genes and your luck. Biodiversity supports human health as well as planetary health.


  • #1682
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    Controlling the few plants that can so easily cause an accident in your garden will have negligible effect on biodiversity.
    tromtipp wrote: »
    Or 105, depending on your genes and your luck. Biodiversity supports human health as well as planetary health.
    I don't think you got the point I was making about average life-spans.
    The huge number of people who made it to the grand old age of "died in childbirth" would also be safe from hogweed.

    All I'm saying is that it's silly to base your actions on nostalgia.


  • #1683
    tromtipp
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tromtipp


    Gardens are important for biodiversity, and concern for that isn't based on nostalgia. Removing every minor risk from the world is impossible. Herbicides can be useful for persistent deep rooted weeds like bindweed or ground elder, but using them on something like hogweed with a single taproot is overkill.

    Life expectancy at birth was lower in the past mainly because so many died in infancy - once you made it to adulthood you were likely to live into your 70s, despite the risks in childbirth, battle, and infection.


  • #1684
    tDw6u1bj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭tDw6u1bj


    tromtipp wrote: »
    Gardens are important for biodiversity, and concern for that isn't based on nostalgia. Removing every minor risk from the world is impossible. Herbicides can be useful for persistent deep rooted weeds like bindweed or ground elder, but using them on something like hogweed with a single taproot is overkill.
    Biodiversity is extremely important, and to suggest for a single second that
    this would make any appreciable difference is disingenuous.
    tromtipp wrote: »
    Life expectancy at birth was lower in the past mainly because so many died in infancy - once you made it to adulthood you were likely to live into your 70s, despite the risks in childbirth, battle, and infection.

    Differences made by a gradual improvements in standards. What was an acceptable and/or unavoidable risk at the time is something totally different to now. People put up with things because they had no choice.


  • #1685
    Bill Hook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Bill Hook


    Plenty of hogweed here and it gets strimmed along with everything else. Wear a long sleeved shirt, trousers, gloves and the face protection thing and exercise a bit more caution around hogweed than other vegetation and you should be OK. Had an experience with bad burns from fig tree sap a few years ago in France but they cleared up and left no permanent damage.


  • #1686
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    My daughter was strimming wearing a long-sleeved high neck shirt and a face mask and some of the sap managed to get to her neck between the shirt collar and the mask, she ended up needing medication and it took weeks for the scars to fade.


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  • #1687
    Sitric
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    Hello all. Do any of you know what this is?


  • #1688
    MacDanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Sitric wrote: »
    Hello all. Do any of you know what this is?

    Looks like Rocket that has gone to seed


  • #1689
    Sitric
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    MacDanger wrote: »
    Looks like Rocket that has gone to seed

    Thanks very much, I had never seen it before. Petals remind me of moth wings.


  • #1690
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Would anyone know what this tree is please?
    I think it might be a sweet chestnut, but the leaves are a bit soft.


  • #1691
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Hickory/Wingnut family if anyone wants to look them up.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • #1692
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    No not a Sweet Chestnut. Looks a lot like a Caucasian Wingnut.


  • #1693
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Hi, yes I looked it up.
    It’s a caucasion wing nut. It is beautiful at the moment with the very long catkins.
    Thank you


  • #1694
    dePeatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    Sitric wrote: »
    Thanks very much, I had never seen it before. Petals remind me of moth wings.
    Never thought of that and I have them in my garden for years now.


  • #1695
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Hi all,
    pretty new to gardening, and have a few questions if thats OK? Over the last few years I planted some appletrees, but as I was away a lot, they did not get the attention they needed. Now some of them have a good crop of apples already formed, while others ( the majority) nothing, even the ones that had flowers earlier on. Not much I can do this year, I suppose, but for next year, some advice would be appreciated.
    And one more thing, I also have some cherry bushs which have deleloped a wart like growth on its leaves, as can be seen in the pic. Some advice please on what it is, and how to treat it?


  • #1696
    New Home
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    Welcome jmreire. :)

    First of all, those are not cherry leaves. Second, those are galls, they can be caused by a lot of different things, from insects to viruses, how you treat them depends on the cause.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall

    I'm afraid I can't help you with your apple trees, but if you post some pictures someone else might be able to.


  • #1697
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That looks more like a current bush, and the red blisters are quite common, I think they are caused by aphids but they are not particularly harmful to the bush.


  • #1698
    Macker
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Macker


    Got this in the post ,it lost its label


  • #1699
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    My first thought would be Heuchera - Coral Bells.


  • #1700
    Macker
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Macker


    looksee wrote: »
    My first thought would be Heuchera - Coral Bells.

    could be but as Ive no flowers yet and there seems to be lots of varieties its hard to tell but thanks


  • #1701
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There is one that sounds like a dessert, it might be that :D I'll see if I can find it.

    Edit - I had no idea how many heucheras have edible sounding names! I have no idea tbh, though they are one plant that you would identify more readily from the leaves than from the flowers.


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