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Help please!

Can anyone tell me what this plant is? My son has just moved house and these are popping up ominously in his lawn!
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  • They look like suckers from the roots of a nearby tree or one that has been felled recently. Look around and you’ll probably find a tree with similar leaves somewhere in the vicinity. 
    Regular mowing of the lawn will prevent them from causing a problem.

    You could treat them with individual ‘dabs’ of a glyphosate gel
    but bear in mind that these suckers are still connected to the roots of the ‘parent’ tree so any weed killer will affect it too. 
    🙂

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





  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    wow, I have never seen this before.  Interesting!


  • Possibly Clerodendron trichotomum..it can sucker like this.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    the smell of all the Clerodendrums is strong and distinctive. go and squeeze a leaf and have a snuff. My neighbour says it smells of peanuts, I can see what she means but it's not quite peanuts


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • I loath the smell of a crushed leaf.
    The flowers smell divine.

    Ooops! Too late to correct spelling above...Clerodendrum trichotomum 
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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