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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Roma on September 18, 2015, 10:18:14 PM

Title: Another mystery plant
Post by: Roma on September 18, 2015, 10:18:14 PM

I think this came from birdseed.  The leaves are soft and clammy.  Any ideas?  I am leaving it to flower but it may be too late.  Where it is growing gets very little sun now.

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Matt T on September 18, 2015, 11:30:13 PM

It almost looks like a Nicotiana?

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Margaret on September 19, 2015, 12:10:55 AM

Sweet Rocket?

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: johnw on September 19, 2015, 02:38:31 AM

I'd smoke it before I'd eat it, but no resemblance to the tobacco or rocket I've grown.

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Tristan_He on September 19, 2015, 08:48:58 AM

Here's a challenge! It's definitely not sweet rocket, as this doesn't have the glandular covering. Matt, I think you may be along the right lines, it has a Solanaceae look to it. I wondered about a Hyoscyamus (though not sure henbane is the best idea in birdseed)?

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Matt T on September 19, 2015, 10:41:48 AM

Guizotia abyssinica, from niger seed?

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Maggi Young on September 19, 2015, 01:31:37 PM

I think Matt's got that right - we had it once from birdseed and decided that was the ID when it flowered.

Title: Re: Another mystery plant
Post by: Roma on September 19, 2015, 02:12:54 PM

Thanks, Matt and Maggi.  It did remind me of Nicotiana but the serrated edge to the leaf did not fit.  It is mixed seed I use so did not know if niger was present.  Hope it manages to flower.  I had a fair idea of the identity of the other plant I left I left to grow.  It is now confirmed as oats.