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nicknack

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Name that weed
« on: 06 December, 2013, 04:03:50 pm »
We've got this stuff all over the garden. No idea what it is but it's a real pain in the bum. Can't give any info about flowers cos we've not been here long but it's growing very nicely at the beginning of December.
Looks like this on the top and just seems to get taller:


Supported by these underground. Look a bit parsnipy - white inside dark brown on the outside.


Anyone any idea, please?
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Peter

Re: Name that weed
« Reply #1 on: 06 December, 2013, 04:08:02 pm »
My daughter thinks it may be hogweed.
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T42

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Re: Name that weed
« Reply #2 on: 06 December, 2013, 04:09:51 pm »
Does it shriek when you pull it up?
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jacdaw

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Re: Name that weed
« Reply #3 on: 06 December, 2013, 04:40:05 pm »

Looks like ground elder to me. Sorry.

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PaulR

Re: Name that weed
« Reply #4 on: 06 December, 2013, 04:57:29 pm »
Quote from: jacdaw on 06 December, 2013, 04:40:05 pm

Looks like ground elder to me. Sorry.

I was thinking that, but then I remembered ground elder just having long white roots, rather than those parsnip-like things.

Is it some wild member of the celery family?
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nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: Name that weed
« Reply #5 on: 06 December, 2013, 05:24:09 pm »
Definitely not ground elder or mandrake (didn't utter as much as a whimper). Common hogweed's a possibility - can't find a picture of the root anywhere. It laughs at glyphosate BTW.
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jacdaw

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Re: Name that weed
« Reply #6 on: 06 December, 2013, 05:57:43 pm »
Ah yes, you're right. Ground elder has rhizomes not tap roots. Might be easier to get rid of in that case.
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nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: Name that weed
« Reply #7 on: 06 December, 2013, 06:25:20 pm »
Quote from: jacdaw on 06 December, 2013, 05:57:43 pm
Might be easier to get rid of in that case.

Hmm...

Some of the taproots are very long - in a heavy clay soil. If you don't get all of it out, the teensy bit that snapped off at the bottom will sprout again.
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Bledlow

Re: Name that weed
« Reply #8 on: 06 December, 2013, 07:31:01 pm »
Yeah, but there'll be less of it when it comes up again.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Name that weed
« Reply #9 on: 07 December, 2013, 12:46:08 am »
Could it be wild parsnip? If so, take care, because the sap can do similar things as can the sap of giant hogweed. The leaves look very parsnippy and the roots are not dissimilar.



Mrs. Wow's ankle during our Irish end-to-end. I assumed it was giant hogweed that did this (it was May so it wasn't that big at the time) but looking up wild parsnip it may have been that.
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nicknack

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Re: Name that weed
« Reply #10 on: 07 December, 2013, 11:14:22 am »
We now think Alexanders is a distinct possibility.
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ferret

Re: Name that weed
« Reply #11 on: 07 December, 2013, 05:52:46 pm »
this is a useful site, http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz.htm, there are other sites :)
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