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ID a plant for a friend please ...

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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I've been sent this photo along with this description ...

"...It sprung up over winter in last years tomato pot.  I do sometimes use the spent earth as a nursery.  Can’t remember for the life of me what it might be.  It does have sweet pea type tendrills that don’t show in the photo..."

I've asked for more photos including stems and tendrils and also asked whether the pot was in a greenhouse over winter.  She lives in Wiltshire.



Any suggestions? 

Maybe one of the solanums ........... ? 

Does anyone recognise this please?



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





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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    White bryony? perhaps. Brionia dioica.  I get one that rampages through a shrub every year. I chop it down but back it comes. I can't get at the tap root easily.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I was wondering about that @fidgetbones ... but wasn't sure about the number of lobes on the leaves ... or are they variable? 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147




    A couple more pics. 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Generally mine are five lobed, but sometimes seedlings are different.  Theres a poor picture of a seedling on ebay that looks 3 lobed.  They also call it English mandrake.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Cheers @fidgetbones ... I know that some seedlings sometimes do take time to get 'adult' leaves.  
     :) 


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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Looks very similar to Passiflora.  If the friend has discarded any passion fruit into a compost heap and then used the resultant compost, given some warmth it's not unheard for them to germinate - rather like the toms. pots etc. which spring up in unlikely places  ;)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That's another idea ... thanks @philippasmith2 ....  :D  Hopefully she's happy to keep it growing a while so we can see flowers ........ although she's planning to move house this summer ......

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I can't see White Bryony anywhere there. I think it's a garden plant rather than a wildflower


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    She is one of my 'Foodie Pals' so may well have discarded some interesting seeds in her compost bin ... she's going to keep an eye on it and let us know what happens ... 

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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Dovefromabove said:
    That's another idea ... thanks @philippasmith2 ....  :D  Hopefully she's happy to keep it growing a while so we can see flowers ........ although she's planning to move house this summer ......
    Be interesting to know.  My P edulis is just flowering now in the GH.  I find they take about 18 months/2 years from germination to produce fruit.  The previous one I did had 20 fruits which were fully ripened by November - delicious  :D
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