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Strange climber seen on walk.

grahamjonesartgrahamjonesart Posts: 5
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Any idea what this thick woody climber is? It seems to me to be non native, seen on a woodland walk in Bedfordshire by a puzzled friend, who states that it climbed high into the upper reaches of the tree. My wild guess is that it is an exotic escapee from an estate garden
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Looks very wisteria like.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It might well be wisteria, we saw a huge one in Exbury Gardens once, climbing up one of their large trees.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There's a clematis weed. Travellers joy or old man's beard - something like that.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nope😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Well I did wonder pansyface . . .
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • grahamjonesartgrahamjonesart Posts: 5
    Good one pansyface. Thanks for suggestions everyone. Wisteria/clematis are certainly likely contenders, but looking at them online I don’t see the regular bamboo-like ridges that we have here.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I was fully expecting to see a picture of The Naked Rambler Stephen Gough...


  • grahamjonesartgrahamjonesart Posts: 5
    Fire, it must be Spring as I see a crocus is just pushing through.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It must be awful cold too

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
     :o 
    East Lancs
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