Identify this plant please

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2018

  Looks to me a lot  like a datura stramonium aka thornapple. Probably from germinated wild birdseed?  There’s a lot of them appearing this year as the high temperatures encouraged germination. They have attractive flowers and interesting seedcases but they are members of the nightshade /solanacae family and are poisonous. 

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

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• debbieclark1972 Posts: 13

  September 2018

  Thank you so much I’ll get digging it out 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2018

  Unless you’ve got small ones you’d be worried about why not wait and see it flower. After all, potato plants are members of the same family and their seeds are poisonous too ... just a thought 

  
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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  September 2018

  Nice Hosta.

  Devon.

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• debbieclark1972 Posts: 13

  September 2018

  I’d rather not they’ve got cats too probably best to get rid to be honest 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  September 2018

  Cats won’t eat it. They’ve got more sense ... but if it worries you ... 
  
  mind you there’s probably other poisonous plants in the garden ... most gardens have several ... it’s just that folk aren’t aware of them 

  
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• dappledshade Posts: 1,017

  September 2018

  Dovefromabove said:

  Cats won’t eat it. They’ve got more sense ... but if it worries you ... 
  
  mind you there’s probably other poisonous plants in the garden ... most gardens have several ... it’s just that folk aren’t aware of them 

  Very true.
  From my experience of cats, they tend to eat mainly grass when outside the house, anyway.
  The most toxic plants and most dangerous are lilies (like indoor peace lilies) particularly for indoor cats who will nibble any house plant if they don't have access to the outdoors or any cat grass to chew instead.
  
  

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• debbieclark1972 Posts: 13

  September 2018

  Thanks for your advice I’ve passed it on to my friends and they are going to dig it up I don’t think you can ever by too careful 

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