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21-06-2010, 08:23 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Dorset
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| |  Balsam-type escaped?
Friend of mine sent this picture for ID. He lives in Suffolk. Could it be a foreign blow-in or escaped member of the balsam family?  |
21-06-2010, 09:49 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
Looks like a young tobacco plant but there again I've not seen many young plants with a flower spike, only older mature ones. |
21-06-2010, 03:14 PM
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
Try Pokeweed - Phytolacca americana. |
21-06-2010, 04:37 PM
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
It is Asian Pokeweed (Phytolacca acinosa) - P. americana has drooping flowerspikes and probably doesn't occur in the UK. |
21-06-2010, 07:51 PM
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
American Pokeweed is a not uncommon garden plant and can 'take over' if allowed leading to bits being thrown out.
But you could well be right with the Asian Sp..
Dorts. |
21-06-2010, 09:57 PM
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
Thanks for the information and advice - I have passed this on with a recommendation that he eradicates it quickly :-) |
23-06-2010, 04:24 PM
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| | | Re: Balsam-type escaped?
Although determined as Asian Pokeweed, there's an interesting paragraph (and pic) about the American species in a blog by a Wild About the World member here.... GeorgiaBeforePeople
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