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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Roma on November 03, 2013, 11:56:43 AM

Title: Unknown Plant
Post by: Roma on November 03, 2013, 11:56:43 AM: A friend sent me this picture of a seeding plant she found while weeding. It is about 2 feet tall and there are no leaves to help with id. She does not recognise it. I haven't a clue. Does anyone out there know it?
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: mark smyth on November 03, 2013, 12:21:40 PM: could it be a millet?
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: shelagh on November 05, 2013, 09:42:46 AM: Yes Mark that was my first thought. It looks just like the Millet we used to put in the Budgies cage.
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: Roma on November 05, 2013, 10:46:13 AM: 76 views and only two replies ???

Thanks Mark and Shelagh for your thoughts. I have passed on your comments to my friend but have not heard from her yet.
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: Afloden on November 05, 2013, 11:37:56 PM: It seems to be an infructescence of one of the following two; Aruncus aethusifolius or an Astilbe.
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 18, 2013, 10:25:11 AM: I found this plant growing in a patch of grass. There were several clumps like this.
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 19, 2013, 08:49:53 PM: I should have said that this was a large patch of council mown lawn. Other weeds included a pink Oxalis, as well as the usual plantains, daisies (British and South African), dandelions and clover.
Title: Re: Unknown Plant
Post by: Oron Peri on November 20, 2013, 05:07:53 AM: Looks like Sparaxis bulbifera on a bad day... ;)