Well I STILL think its an eryngium. Some pics on google look awfully similar, incl spines in right place. There are tonnes of varieties, with widely differing foliage, and several are native and common to the area in question. Apparently some are edible or used medicinally. So i bet its well known locally if its wot i think it is. We call it sea holly, though few vrieties actually grow on coasts (not those in Afghanistan, obviously). Mostly a plant of open grassland or desert scrub. Anyway, i guess we'll havta wait and see wen it grows up a bit. Always difficult to identify such littlies. Hope it flowers this year and Budgieo remembers to put us out of our misery! I've learned sum new plant facts anyway...
No, sorry - I didn't mean it was Miss W's Ghost - I was just linking to a site that stated that some eryngiums are native to that area - sorry, it was very early in the morning - I should have explained myself more clearly
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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the 2nd photo looks something like Acanthus spinosus spinosissimus group.. have a look at that one and see what you think...
could be salino, those big thorns seem to come off the stems though and i didn't think they did that. haven't got that so can't go and look
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've got an Acanthus spinosissimus but it doesn't look like that.
I suspect we need a book on afghan weeds.
I suspect you're right fb
In the sticks near Peterborough
How about Silybum marianum. Found in that area, and has first true leaves that are veined and roundish.
I know that one well fb, vicious when the time comes to remove it but it doesn't look like that
In the sticks near Peterborough
Well I STILL think its an eryngium. Some pics on google look awfully similar, incl spines in right place. There are tonnes of varieties, with widely differing foliage, and several are native and common to the area in question. Apparently some are edible or used medicinally. So i bet its well known locally if its wot i think it is. We call it sea holly, though few vrieties actually grow on coasts (not those in Afghanistan, obviously). Mostly a plant of open grassland or desert scrub. Anyway, i guess we'll havta wait and see wen it grows up a bit. Always difficult to identify such littlies. Hope it flowers this year and Budgieo remembers to put us out of our misery! I've learned sum new plant facts anyway...
No, sorry - I didn't mean it was Miss W's Ghost - I was just linking to a site that stated that some eryngiums are native to that area - sorry, it was very early in the morning - I should have explained myself more clearly
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.