This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Please can you ID this seed pod / fruit?
Trunksickle
Posts: 27
in Talkback
0
Trunksickle
Posts: 27
Trunksickle
Posts: 27
Posts
Can we see the plant it was attached to please
In the sticks near Peterborough
Looks very much like the seed head of Nicandra physalodes, the Shoo Fly plant.
I agree with Berghill. I have just harvested a load from my plant and offered them on the seed swap thread. I think it's a nice plant but self seeds quite easily I think and gets quite big. Lovely dark blackish stems and big bright green leaves.
Thank you very much, my dad picked the pod for me and forgot what it was! It looks like a beautiful plant.
Can I ask you Daryl2, do you think the seeds in my pod will be too immature to plant when dried? I just googled the pods and they go brown?
Thanks again!
Sorry, Helen, I don't have much experience of them myself but I can say that the ones that I cut off my plant were beginning to turn brown and then dried indoors in a day or two. They opened easily when I pressed my finger on them and hundreds of little seeds came out. I'm just going to throw a few in a seed tray and see what happens.
Think it sometimes called Apple of Peru as well. Easy to grow. Sow seeds and you will have loads to give away. Can become quite a large plant. The flowers are a beautiful blue.
Thanks everyone!