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Invasive weed ID
Mand3
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Hi, can anyone confirm my thoughts on these weeds for me please? I have spotted them both in a garden I work in - they weren't around last year! I think the spikey leafed one is giant hogweed ( it has large spikey mottled stems). However, I am not sure about the one with the taller mottled cane . I fear it might be knotweed as it is similar but the leaves look different to other images I have seen. It looks like bad news whatever it is but if anyone can confirm I would be very grateful. Thanks
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The first certainly looks like giant hogweed so better get rid of that before you get sap all over yourself.
The second could be voodoo lily but the picture is a bit small so identification is tricky.
2nd looks like Dracunculus vulgaris.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you - that was really helpful. it does look rather like the lily Dracanulus. i am perplexed though as it was not there last year and I haven't planted it and neither has the old dear who lives there. I will leave it be and see what happens. m
If it's not dracunculus it's a relation. It will have been the last year, that's 2 or 3 years old, but until they put up those spotted stems they're quite insignificant.
They're not lilies though, they're aroids. Different family
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great. Thanks again