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Another ID

geoffs1953geoffs1953 Posts: 20
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Please can someone help me identify this plant?

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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719


    Maybe Phytolacca?


    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • geoffs1953geoffs1953 Posts: 20
    That looks a possibility although I do not see a variety with such red leaf stems. I had to move it for the pond reworking just as it was coming into flower so I do not know the final form or colour of the flower.
    Thanks for reorienting the picture. I reduced it in size but obviously not quite enough.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @geoffs1953 Just to say a poisonous plant 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Is it possible you have two plants there? The veining and leaf shape are different.  The one with the red midrib looks to me like a dock leaf but no idea what the other one is.  Could we have more pictures?
    East Anglia
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I now think the plant coming up to flower is a Petasites, or Butterbur, but not sure why it is flowering now.  The other with the red veins as I say could be a dock.
    East Anglia
  • geoffs1953geoffs1953 Posts: 20
    That is a good spot Asarum! It is a dock coming up within the stems of the other plant. I had to move it for my pond works and it is not in best health as the picture below shows. The plant does look like a Petasites Hybridus that has got its seasons mixed up.
    It will need to be moved again so fingers crossed that it will survive.
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