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StmarleyStmarley Posts: 9

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Can anyone identify this, I know its dead common but no idea myself.

 

Thank you

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  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    St John's Wort -  I think - will try and find out which one, but some one on here is bound to know and will pop up soon.

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    Rose of Sharon, hypericum - large ones pain in the…er …. garden.  Tiny ones quite pretty. Frequently found in commercial planting schemes as it covers a large area quickly.

    Have been trying to eradicate it from our garden for 17 years since we moved in here, not succeeded yet. 

  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    Might be hypericum androsaemum. Google it and see if it matches your plant.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Yes, as Forester says H. androsaemum.

    Rose of Sharon and St John's Wort seem to be used indiscriminately to cover all umpteen species of hypericum to the confusion of allimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Common name Tutsan (from French, all healthy. Used medicinally and, I believe, as a preservative for the paper of old books.

    'A tincture made from this plant, as well as that made from the perforate St. John's Wort, has been used with success to cure melancholia, and its allied forms of insanity(!)

    H-C

  • StmarleyStmarley Posts: 9
    Thank you all I caught my toddler picking the berries this morning so wanted to make sure it wasn't anything ultra poisonous.
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