What is this and should I get rid of it?

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  March 2020

  Venus fly trap?

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• purplerallim Posts: 5,287

  March 2020 edited March 2020

  Yes a venus fly trap. 😁

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  March 2020

  Well-done @Busy-Lizzie
  

  Easier to guess than Mars flytraps.

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  March 2020

    
  

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  March 2020

  What is this, uprooted from a planter last year, and forgotten in the garden shed?
  

  Could it be a mutation of the infamous coronavirus?

  Should I destroy it before it attacks me?

  
  

  
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  March 2020

  It's the vine weevil god

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• purplerallim Posts: 5,287

  March 2020

  It looks like a shrivelled up strawberry 🤣 @Papi Jo

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  March 2020 edited March 2020

  Thanks for trying, @B3 & @purplerallim . Wrong guesses, do try again!

  Wrong also, @Dovefromabove but nice try.

  I'll give a hint: about 1 inch in diameter (not counting the "hair").
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2020

  That looks like one of the beetroot I forgot about

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

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  March 2020

  Must admit that one was not easy. Thanks for trying, everybody. Don't want you to lose sleep over this riddle, so here we go...

  That's the "potato" of an Ipomoea batatas 'Sweet Caroline Green Yellow' (that's not the same as  Ipomoea tricolor morning glory). Sorry I don't have a pic of the plant in my garden, but here's a link to a web search for it.

  I use this plant every year in combination with some New Guinea Impatiens, in a planter in the shade in summer. Works well. I shall now plant this "potato" in the soil and see it it grows.

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