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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: MargaretB on September 01, 2016, 12:59:22 PM

Title: Mystery weed
Post by: MargaretB on September 01, 2016, 12:59:22 PM

Can anyone identify this weed in my daughter's garden in Brussels please?

Title: Re: Mystery weed
Post by: Carolyn on September 01, 2016, 01:30:30 PM

Are the stems trailing along the ground? It looks like wisteria which is making a bid to escape its allotted space.

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Post by: Parsla on September 01, 2016, 01:36:10 PM

Hi Margaret,
I'm probably way off the mark but it looks rather like forsythia foliage.

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Post by: Gerdk on September 01, 2016, 01:48:00 PM

I am for Wistaria too.

Gerd

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Post by: Hoy on September 01, 2016, 01:48:46 PM

Yes, me too - the leaves are compound.

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Post by: Alan_b on September 01, 2016, 03:26:14 PM

If it is Wisteria then surely you can follow the long stems to which the leaves are attached back to their point of origin.  AFAIK Wisteria does not sucker.

Title: Re: Mystery weed
Post by: MargaretB on September 01, 2016, 04:25:44 PM

Thank you everyone for your replies, wisteria it is.  What a friendly helpful crew on this forum.  I will now warn my daughter to keep my 8 month old granddaughter away due to wisteria's toxicity.

Title: Re: Mystery weed
Post by: Alan_b on September 01, 2016, 06:51:11 PM

I think it's the seed pods and seeds that are the toxic part that might possibly be eaten.  Apparently the bark is also toxic but who chews on bark?  My Wisteria has produced about one seed pod in 20 years, although I occasionally do see a Wisteria with a lot of seed pods.