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Identify a plant

hi I am new to this forum but wondered if anyone could help me identify a plant I found growing in a pot. I know I didn't plant it, so I left it to see what would grow.

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 Any help on identifying this would be appreciated. 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    It's a cyperus but I don't know which one



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    I agree. It is unlikely to be hardy in most of the UK.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • What is a Cyprus and is it poisonous?  Thank you for a very swift reply. 

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    It is a type of Sedge which is similar to grass, but needs a damper soil. Not poisonous, indeed some of the sedges have edibkle seeds

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,066

    This arrived by bird or wind and self seeds with gay abandon in my moist beds over by the pond.  It's a pain in the bum to keep digging out.   Not a  welcome visitor here and definitely hardy..

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Thank you everyone for the information. It's growing in a pot with a hosta and the pot is extremely damp. I must say it does look quite attractiv. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    you can propagate them by taking one of the heads and trimming it back by about half to forma  smaller umbrella, then dunk it into a glass of water UPSIDE DOWN and they root really well. 

    We've got a pair in the conservatory in Indian cooking pots we brought back from hols. Their happy to stand in water too.

    Devon.
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