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Another mystery plant

JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
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any ideas what this is? Again it « popped up » amongst my dahlias and Tabacco plants.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    edited August 2018
    Possibly Atropa belladonna var. lutea (a form of Deadly nightshade with yellow flowers and berries)?
    This one came up earlier today in another post.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Flowers were tiny white things I think.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Hmm had a look and the berries look different from all the belladonna one I am seeing. Also the flowers were tiny white open ones, not bell shaped. Any other ideas?
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Where’s @nutcutlet ?  This is right up her street ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I'm not on close terms with Atropa belladonna but the calyx round the berry seems more pronounced in Bob's photos than in Jacqui's photo


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Looks like solanum family though, doesn't it nut?  I think I'd have said woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) if the berries were red.  I know there's a white flowered form of that but not what colour the berries are.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    A bit of a shot in the dark here , but with small white flowers could it be Solanum torvum?
    Obviously a tender plant in the UK , but surviving seeds would overwinter here and behave as an annual , especially this year !
    With Jacqui stating it has popped up 'again' , sounds more like annual than perennial .

    I have the Australian Solanum laciniatum ; a frost tender plant which appears every year in my garden . The seeds survive outdoors and I treat this as an 'annual' welcome visitor .
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Yep, not the belladonna.  Does look like something in the solanum family though and I'd have said Solanum dulcamara (Woody nightshade) had the berries been red.  There's a white flowered form of that but I've no idea what colour the berries are on it.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    yes, definitely Solanaceae, Bob.


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nav 544nav 544 Posts: 22
    Bob, Dulcamara is also the closest i could find, the mystery is the berries, it would appear that the white flowering variety has black berries.

    Jacqui, are the leaves serrated at all, hopefully you will get some more flowers and post up a pic :)
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