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Liz485
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June 2019
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Can anyone identify this plant please? It appeared in a tub of hostas last year and this year it has strange flowers/bracts. We have never seen anything like it. When I snapped a stem it’s sap reminded me of a euphorbia.
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Borderline
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June 2019
It’s a Caper Spurge. Euphorbia Lathyris. They self seed.
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Liz485
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June 2019
Thanks for that.
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jillpapworth
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June 2019
Pretty! Can you actually harvest capers from it I wonder?
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Silver surfer
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June 2019
Eeeck...NO!!!!
Euphorbia are toxic.
Be careful of the white latex sap.
Nothing to do with edible capers...which come from the flower buds of Capparis spinosa.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Capparis+spinosa,+the+caper+bush&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAwf2UocviAhWGRBUIHUSUANYQ_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=944
Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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Can anyone identify this plant please? It appeared in a tub of hostas last year and this year it has strange flowers/bracts. We have never seen anything like it. When I snapped a stem it’s sap reminded me of a euphorbia.
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Euphorbia are toxic.
Be careful of the white latex sap.
Nothing to do with edible capers...which come from the flower buds of Capparis spinosa.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Capparis+spinosa,+the+caper+bush&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAwf2UocviAhWGRBUIHUSUANYQ_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=944