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Plant ID

NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
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Can anyone ID this pond plant? The grass was dug out of a pond last night and given to my other half as a gift but I’m struggling to find out what it exactly is aside from a grass. 

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Could it be one of the papyrus types of plant - Cyperus

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    The foliage is quite similar, im not sure due to the flowers though. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It's not something I've grown since I had one in a bucket in my bedroom when I was a teenager, and my  memory does't stretch that far back so I can remember what it looked like :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Could it be one of the Carex family? Rushes are round, sedges have edges and grasses are flat. That could be a way in to tell you which group it belongs to.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Not a Cyperus  :)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t know what it’s called, but someone gave me a root and it’s taken over,  I though we would be able to tame it, as we’d put it in a container, but we couldn’t.  
    I would be very wary of putting it in your pond unless you have a very large one where it doesn’t matter.
    as you can see here, it’s gone right across the back and sprung up at the opposite front corner.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    Oh heck, I did worry that it was something that was quite invasive, I only have a little pond …. I have a half barrel that I could plant it in instead so that it can be contained and positioned near the pond atleast … that way I also don’t offend the other half by not planting it in the actual pond 🤔🤭 Might that be the better option? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2022
    NGLittleSeedlings said:
    …. that way I also don’t offend the other half by not planting it in the actual pond 🤔🤭 Might that be the better option? 
    … in fact, it’s so special you’re actually making a special feature of it 😇 

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





  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    Haha exactly 😉
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