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Isles of Scilly Plant IDs

1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
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Hi. I suspect anything growing here is not going to like my cold clay but any ideas what these are?


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The top one looks like a tree lupin.
    Not sure about the other one

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    second pic looks like it could be a tree lupin but I'm not sure
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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    I think lupin too - don't know the yellow one, sorry. I'll flag it up for @nutcutlet to have a look - she has an encyclopaedic knowledge of plants :)

    Have you just come back from the Isles of Scilly? We fly there on Saturday - really looking forward to it - especially as one day will be spent visiting the Abbey gardens on Tresco (see - nearly let that post as Tesco!! )

    Hope you had a great time if you have just been.
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  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    I was expecting to see photos of what my mum used to call 'hottentot figs'! I'm so envious - I have family on Scilly, my late uncle ran Trenoweth, the flower farm on St Marys, for about 30 years. I'm not sure if my cousin is still involved in that... We spent three or four weeks there every year of my childhood until I was 16 and I've only been back once, for a day trip. Tis out of my league expensive these days I think... although I have thought about camping on Garrison I wonder if we'd get blown away, lol!
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    I think the last picture is of sea radish (Raphanus maritimus).  We have it growing in abundance along our coastline. The first is a lupin - perhaps Lupinus arboreus. We have plenty of hottentot fig here Thankthecatand there are working parties tackling it in their spare time.  Some people think it is brilliant at slowing errosion and want it kept, but it isn't native and spreads so quickly whilst killing off the native plants in the area.
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Thanks for the replies. My first thought was lupin looking at the foliage but I have never seen a tree lupin. Will have to look it up. Any lupins in my garden are normally slug fodder.

    Would be interested if anyone could confirm GD's theory on the yellow flower. I thought it would make a nice garden plant.

    I grew up on Scilly but never appreciated the beauty. Going back now just blows me away. Only place I know where I can have a sparrow, thrush and nearly even a starling (!!) literally eating out of my hand.

    Sadly on the way home now :'( but I will post up some more pictures when I have some more bandwidth.


  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I should think GD is right, I thought radish gone to seed, I'm not familiar with Sea Radish


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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    1. Sea radish 2. Sea holly, both growing near a local beach .
    There is also sea kale, Sea rocket, sea sandwort, sea spurge and sea stock growing along our coasts and hundreds of other marine type plants.
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