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Unknown vegetable

Ddunn6699Ddunn6699 Posts: 3
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Hi can anyone tell me what this is? It popped up in my vegetable garden. It has what appears to be spiked fruit and is about 1-2 feet high. Thanks 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s a Thorn apple ... Datura stramonium ... pops up in warm weather ... poisonous
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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2020
    I could see it on the tip of your tongue @pansyface 😝 

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





  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Dovefromabove said:
    I could see it on the tip of your tongue @pansyface 😝 
    Don't eat it @pansyface :D:D:D
    East Lancs
  • Ddunn6699Ddunn6699 Posts: 3
    Thanks very much from Adelaide Australia, have never seen this before but is most definitely Datura Stramonium, came up after applying fertilizer to garden bed at the end of winter. I suppose the next question is how to safely dispose of the plant to stop germination to start again?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2020
    When it appears here from time to time we pull it up and bung it in the compost before the seeds are ripe. 
    As your weather will be more likely to ripen seeds than ours I’d pull it up and leave it in a bucket of water to rot down in the hope the seeds rot too. But if it does seed it’s not a disaster ... it’s a fascinating and strangely beautiful flower and easily recognised so you can pull them up before they set seeds next time 😎 

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





  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    Dhatura or Datura. I don't know which variety but as soon as I saw first picture I thought of Dhatura. Then I noticed  white flower appearing in third picture . It is poisonous so be careful. the flowers are Trumpet shape , I have seen yellow, pinkish and white flower plants growing in Kenya, India, Singapore, Indonesia and USA. 
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I was wondering where you were. We had some come up the other year. They seem to have been dormant for a very long time and then one hot summer was the right conditions for them to germinate. If you cut the seed pods off and dispose of them, you can compost the rest safely.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I didn't realise that that is the same plant that I saw swallowing a bus shelter last year. They are certainly spectacular!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Ddunn6699Ddunn6699 Posts: 3
    barossa valley Adelaide Australia, it has been a dry winter and now in summer with a wet start
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Mine only grew to 2 ft  or so.  The seed are thought to be hallucinogenic. I haven't tried it.
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