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Plant identification

natalie1571natalie1571 Posts: 3
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Hello :) Hoping someone may be able to identify a plant growing in the garden please? 

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  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    Looks like the flowerhead of a semi cactus dahlia, there are cultivars with red tips to yellow petals, yours may be a seedling as it looks a bit messy compared to the cultivars on the market.
  • natalie1571natalie1571 Posts: 3
    Thank you very much cmarkr  ☺️ 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited July 2022
    Welcome to the forums natalie 1571.
    Where was this plant please... UK or elsewhere.
    In the wild or in a garden?
    This mystery plant appears to be very near to the ground..with an evergreen leathery leaf.
    It looks very exotic and tropical.
    I do not believe it is any form of Dahlia.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It doesn't look like a dahlia to me either. It looks sort of plastic, some sort of weird exotic plant.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Busy-Lizzie said:
    It doesn't look like a dahlia to me either. It looks sort of plastic, some sort of weird exotic plant.
    It looks real to me.
    But tropical.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • natalie1571natalie1571 Posts: 3
    Hi Silver Surfer. It’s in a garden in South Devon. 


    Thanks for all your comments. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It reminds me somehow of the red Octopus Fungus … 

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





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