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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on April 21, 2019, 01:31:57 PM

Title: What to expect?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 21, 2019, 01:31:57 PM

This was supposed to be a pot of primula but .........
Can anyone tell me what I should expect from this rather robust looking specimen??????????
JohnnyD

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: Gail on April 21, 2019, 02:31:03 PM

Common sorrel or garden sorrel (Rumex acetosa) would be my guess.

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: shelagh on April 21, 2019, 03:20:24 PM

You could add it to your salad John!

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: arisaema on April 21, 2019, 03:54:59 PM

That looks big enough to be a spinach plant, you could just taste it, it's definitely not a Primula...

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: GordonT on April 21, 2019, 05:10:37 PM

I agree, Spinach! ;D

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 21, 2019, 06:02:34 PM

Just tasted it - no taste????????????
J.

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: arisaema on April 22, 2019, 01:54:44 AM

Quote from: JohnnyD on April 21, 2019, 06:02:34 PM

Just tasted it - no taste????????????

Then spinach makes sense, you'd certainly taste something if it had been a sorrel. You can compare with this: http://www.gardnercultivation.com/?attachment_id=1032 (http://www.gardnercultivation.com/?attachment_id=1032)

Title: Re: What to expect?
Post by: JohnnyD on April 22, 2019, 10:00:06 AM

I'm confused. Best wait until it flowers perhaps.  :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\