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weed problem
glenn2
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stem white bark type, leaf a little like rhubarb but smaller does anyone from this description recognise if possible I do have picture
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I think the picture is needed
In the sticks near Peterborough
Post a pic glenn2 easier.
A kind person posted this link recently. http://www.gardenwithoutdoors.org.uk/weed_guide
Looking forward to seeing the pic, but in the meantime I'm thinking it sounds like an arum ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
it was the 'stem white bark type' that put me off the arum idea Dove
In the sticks near Peterborough
Does the stem break with a stringy inside? I can picture it , but no idea of the name right now.
Like Burdock.
Good morning Nut
If you take 'bark' to mean the exterior surface of the stem ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
that's the way I was going Dove, That whitish coating to the leaf stalks.
Might be right offtrack though.
... and it's the time of year when they appear en masse ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
en masse describes them well
It's a good time of year for uprooting them, the tops stay attached to the corm better than they do later on.
In the sticks near Peterborough