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Plant identification

Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32
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Hi, I hope everyone is well. I haven’t been on the site for some time as we had to downsize to a flat with a communal garden only. This plant is taking over the lawn, I wondered if someone could identify it please. It has a spike with what seems orange berry like seed heads on it later in the year.
really miss my garden but that’s life!
thanks to any one who can help.
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  • Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32
    This should have been attached to previous post, not very good at this!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    @Susienearly65 Could it be Arum? Disappears in summer then a drumstick of orange berries. Welcome back! Should add keep the rabbits away if it is.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32
    Thank you GardenerSuze, it has the same sort of seed heads as Arum but the leaves are quite large and round, Arum is more sword shape I think.
    Our gardener told me it was ginger, but I can’t find any ginger plants that look similar.
    The gardener is just letting it spread further into the lawn, I think it saves him cutting the grass.
    I did wonder if the seed heads are poisonous, but without an identification, it’s difficult.
  • Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32

    The only rabbits we get are on my fence, which I’m not really allowed to have! Lots of squirrels though!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I grow wild ginger Asarum Europaeum but much smaller leaves and no berries. It wouldn't spread as you suggest.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32
    The leaves are similar to the wild ginger, but this one spreads really quickly, it’s there all year round and it definitely has the orange berries like the Arum. Bit of a mystery.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    @Susienearly65 Take a look at Asarum canadense. A new plant to me.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    To me it looks like winter heliotrope in the photo but I don't think they produce the orange berries mentioned so maybe there is some arum mixed in there as well.

    Happy gardening!
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  • Susienearly65Susienearly65 Posts: 32
    I’ve just looked at the Canadian wild ginger, very interesting form of pollination, but although the leaves are the same, it doesn’t have the seed heads. We have a very good, proper nursery, close to us, I might take some in and ask their opinion. This stuff spreads almost as you watch it!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I was just out with my dog and at the edge of the fields I spotted a similar mass of similar looking plants. There were about 50ft of them that seem to spread via runners.
    No idea what they are, but I picked one-


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