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Anyone recognise this mysterious seedling?
Rgardener1
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Any scent when you rub the leaf? Is the stem square?
I just check now
No the leaves do not smell
Is the stem square or hairy?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think it's square?
It looks to me like the annual weed Dog's Mercury.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Are they poisonous
By any chance
Yes, not good for you to eat it, but I don't suppose you would, would you?
I think you'd have to eat quite a lot for it to finish you off. People have recovered from eating it. It grew everywhere that I played when I was a child. I'm still here.
Info here http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz/mercurialis_perennis.htm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.