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Plant ID please

This plant has appeared down the road from me.  It wasn't there last year but the owners of the house have had a load of landscaping done on the drive (ie cleared the whole established garden, and covered it with gravel, chucked out a skip full of plants image

Anyway this has popped up this year.  Any idea what it might be? 

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Thank you. x 

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  • It's something in the Solanum family - not sure what.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Could it be a 'shoo-fly' plant or nicandra physalodes? A member of the solanacea or potato family. I had one growing in my garden some years back. If wrong I stand corrected.

  • I think you're right, Fluffy.  image  Just googled it...

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • I think you might be right Fluffy Cloud


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





  • ooh great, thank you.  you learn something new every day. image

  • Learning is the easy part Peanuts ............. it's remembering that's the problem imageimage


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Too right Doveimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Definitely Nicandra. Seedheads - green and black in the picture will ripen to a beige colour can be collected and the contents sown next year. I use the seedheads in dried flower winter decorations.

    Tip - when the seedlings come through next year you can distinguish them from weed/other seedlings as they have little black spots on the leaves.

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