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A mystery

greenmaidgreenmaid Posts: 25
in Plants

Hi,

This plant has lilac flowers when it is still very cold in Scotland at the beginning of March.  The leaves have 5 fingers and are only just beginning to appear.  It has no perfume but something loves eating it.  Comes up every year and appears to be corms.  Nobody seems to know what it is - can anybody help please?  Sorry the pictures are not too good.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I can't see the pictures clearly enough, sorry



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    We need to be,able to enlarge it. Not your fault:)

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Agreed B3, it's vital we get that capability back in the forum as it's absolutely necessary if we want to identify things.  The rest I can live with, even if I don't like it.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I agree but those photos don't improve with enlarging. If you save to your photo file you can enlarge it. I did and can't see any detail.

    Have you got any more photos greenmaid or any more information? How big is it?

    I wondered about a cardamine but all the ones I know come up leaves and flowers at the same time. No corms either. So that knocks that on the head



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • greenmaidgreenmaid Posts: 25

    Thanks for looking nutcutlet

     Sorry no more photos but I will take another when I get some leaves to show.  It is about 12" tall.   I think the soil is quite acid and damp, did wonder whether it could be a wild flower.  Nothing else in the garden has been eaten but both the flowers and the leaves are irresistible to something.

    This is only the second year of living in Scotland and last year I also tried to find out what this plant was.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    No, they won't improve nut - once shrunk by the forum software, detail is permanently lost and can't be recovered by copying to local image manipulation programs and resized.  The old forum software provided a (hidden) hyperlink to the original uploaded image when you clicked it and that is what is needed.  Of course, if the original uploaded image is small or out of focus, then nothing can be done and that may well be the case here.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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