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09-04-2008, 04:54 PM
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| | | Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Okay, we were out strolling today and on this section of scrubland grew Daffodils, Primroses, Dog Violets, Green Alkanet and this! 
What on earth is it?! It's an odd thing certainly!
All help and the like is much appreciated!
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09-04-2008, 04:59 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Looks like a hellebore - poss. stinking hellebore. |
09-04-2008, 05:04 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Its a Euphorbia. The sap is a skin irritant. |
09-04-2008, 05:13 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Not a Euphorbia and looks much like a Helleborus but not one I'm not over-familiar with ... maybe H. lividus which is naturalised in some places? No leves are wrong - much more like H. foetidus but ..... Sorry, still don't have access to my books .....
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09-04-2008, 05:14 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Sorry but it is a Hellebore - and would tend to agree with nutmeg about it being Helleborus foetidus (Stinking Hellebore) I've just checked in a gardening book Paul - H lividus (Corsican Hellebore) has different shaped leaves.
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09-04-2008, 05:19 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Ok its a Hellebore  looking at it again. The lack of flowers threw me a little. |
09-04-2008, 05:23 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  Ok its a Hellebore looking at it again. The lack of flowers threw me a little. | No lack of flowers, they just happen to be green!  |
09-04-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott No lack of flowers, they just happen to be green! |  |
09-04-2008, 05:30 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
Quite so - you must have read my mail in the minute it took me to have second thoughts! It just doesn't strike me as leafy enough to be the stinker. Perhaps it's growing on very poor soil? Nonetheless ... actually, I had wandered off at a tangent with H. lividus and was really thinking about H. virididis which is a shorter species and not foetid! Also not evergreen .... Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheryl Sorry but it is a Hellebore - and would tend to agree with nutmeg about it being Helleborus foetidus (Stinking Hellebore) I've just checked in a gardening book Paul - H lividus (Corsican Hellebore) has different shaped leaves. | |
09-04-2008, 06:02 PM
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| | | Re: Identification needed for odd shaped plant.
100% certain it is Helleborus foetidus. (Stinking Hellebore)
This grows naturally in SW Europe on rocky slopes, roadsides and banks and usually on limestone. | | | |
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