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Mystery plant
maryannekelly
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Hi was wondering if anybody knows what this is? Planted cucumber and this came up!
thank you ????
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Thorn apple https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=536
Don't eat it!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It looks like a wild cucumber vine (Echinocystis lobata) mayannekelly. In some parts of the world (North America) it is a bit of a problem weed:
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/wild-cucumber-control.htm
Could also be the one Dove mentioned (just seen the post.)
Last edited: 11 September 2016 16:03:52
thank you ...still don't know how I got this from a pkt of cucumber seeds !!! Away to dig it up and get rid of it!
According to this https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=536 the wild cucumber vine seedpod holds only four large seeds, so I don't think it's that.
Also I can't see any tendrils.
Last edited: 11 September 2016 16:17:19
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Those spiky pods are pretty distinctive.
Datura stramonium aka thornapple As Dove says. Highly poisonous.
Well spotted Dove - Thorn apple it is!
That is beautiful! I would have eaten it, good job you asked!! ?
Could be an interesting salad, wiki say hallucinogenic.
One of its names is devil's cucumber.
I like Hells bells better. The flowers look pretty.
I'm pretty sure this arrived in compost here. It appeared in too many seed pots in one year to be a coincidence and isn't a local weed
In the sticks near Peterborough