Plant I.D.

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• Yviestevie Posts: 7,066

  April 2018

  The leaves look a bit too shiny to be comfrey, the leaves on mine are more like foxgloves.
  

  Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  April 2018

  There are many species of comfrey. 

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

  April 2018

  I think you are right, nut.  What about this one?
  https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/17885/Symphytum-grandiflorum/Details
  
  
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• Quercusrobur81 Posts: 231

  April 2018

  Yes, I think that’s it-Paul b3 also suggested that one. Thanks so much everyone, off to brew a plant stew from a clump in the wrong place...

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• heatherinbrighton Posts: 1

  April 2018

  Is this type of comfrey self sterile. I've got a lot of it on my allotment and it doesn't seem to set seed but I read that Bocking 14 (with the lilac flowers?) is the only sterile sort. Feeling confused!

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• Quercusrobur81 Posts: 231

  April 2018

  Hi heather, I’m afraid I don’t know... here’s what mine looks like today:
  
  Pretty sure it’s comfy, I’ve just put some in a bucket with water to brew!
  The one I have really spreads, it pops up in the grass and everywhere so maybe not sterile?

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