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What type of poppy is this?

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  • KazzerhKazzerh Posts: 10
    Stage two: the tallest are around 12” high and the whole thing is slender rather than bushy. The stem has station marks rather like bamboo, and has a definite purple hue. The leaves have changed too, the new ones very finely cut and feathery. Still no scent. Or flowers. Annoyed and curious in equal measure. 
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Still looks very like coriander to me.  Strange about the absence of smell though. 
    East Anglia
  • karenrodgerkarenrodger Posts: 1
    Could it be a California Poppy? The upper leaves look similar.
  • KazzerhKazzerh Posts: 10
    Have some what I think are California poppies in a neighbour’s garden; they don’t look entirely the same from memory but will check them out. 
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Could it be some sort of musk mallow ?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Will be easier to identify when the flowers open. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KazzerhKazzerh Posts: 10
    I’ve emailed a link to this chat to T&M; let’s see if they can identify it!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Good luck with that Kaz, can you let us know if they reply. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KazzerhKazzerh Posts: 10
    Well T&M have just identified it as larkspur. Ive bought the cut flowers but haven’t grown it before but I have to say I don’t see the resemblance: the flowers are pretty but tiny. Looks more like a herb that has bolted (still no scent). Either way most have now been composted!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s not larkspur. Oh dear ... did T&M see the flowers?

    Looks like coriander flowers to me ... I had some self- seed the other year and it bloomed and looked just like yours ... scroll down on this site to see the picture of flowers 

    https://www.grow-it-organically.com/growing-cilantro.html


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





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