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Plant/seed identification please.
Chris Rosillo
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Hello!
Please can you help me identify this plant?
Picture of the young plant, plus seed pod it came out of below on flickr...
Plant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97194991@N07/8995591398/
Seed pod: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97194991@N07/8995589512/
Many thanks!
Chris
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Difficult to say until it does something like flower or fruit-at the moment looks a bit like a pepper but then again also a bit like lilac-so....
Where did the seed come from?
Don't think it's a pepper seed, they look like this: http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4017/4420445949_d264b5790f.jpg
This one came from this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97194991@N07/8995589512/
The seed was originally in a wildflower seed mix.
Was it any specific type of wildflower mix, eg. for bees, or for dry areas, or woodland etc?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Could be Nicandra Physiloides, the "shoo-fly" plant, but I am not sure.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@Dovefromabove, looks like it was targeted at pollinators. Was in a pack from B&M bargains so it won't be a specialist mix I doubt.
@punkdoc comparing the seeds, it doesn't look like it unfortunately, but thanks for the suggestion.
Try Mirabilis jalapa. aka Marvel of Peru or 4 o'clock flower.
I'm pretty confident that it isn't a native wildflower (UK) though it will be a wild flower somewhere.
Seeds and seedling look right to me
In the sticks near Peterborough
@nutcutlut Thanks, that looks spot on! I shall plant it out as it does look nice. Funny that its not a British wildflower as the box was advertised as such.
Thanks for the ID!
It's an evening flowerer with a wonderful scent but sometimes get muddled and becomes a day time flowerers
In the sticks near Peterborough