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Identification needed

jooleekim182jooleekim182 Posts: 7
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Hi all, I need help with identifying a plant. This has been growing for about 3 years now and it around 8 foot tall. For the first time something other than leaves has appeared! The only thing I can think of is I do tend to press any fruit stones/pips I have into random pots containing existing plants. So it could be something like that!

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Catkins! My guess is goat willow (Salix caprea).  It does tend to seed itself around.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I agree.  Goat willow.  Get rid or it will grow like the clappers and be hard to shift and there will be more and more of it now that it has flowered.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • jooleekim182jooleekim182 Posts: 7
    Ooooooh! I thought it was going to be a plum tree or something! It's just in a pot on the balcony. Where on earth did that come from then? I live on a council estate in North London....not the countryside!
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    They sometimes come in the compost jooleekim.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The seeds are like thistledown and float for miles on the breeze. 

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





  • jooleekim182jooleekim182 Posts: 7
    Hmmmm that's interesting ladybird. But the earth in the  pot its grown in is over 10 years old. It contains a dead acer that I've never had the heart to get rid of and 3 little tree's I grew from 'helicopters' that I found!
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