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Any Idea What This Is?

Eynsham RedEynsham Red Posts: 55
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This plant comes up this time most years, but as I don't know what it is, or want it where it's growing (always the same place), I'be always pulled it up.

However, this year I've become curious to know exactly what I'm dealing with.

I'd be grateful for your thoughts.

Many thanks.image

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  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    Looks like lord and ladies(arum maculatum). It is a woodland plant from the Araceae family.

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

    Looks like Arum maculatum (Lords-and-Ladies).

    Last edited: 25 March 2017 17:29:50

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

    Yes, it is, and it is a devil to remove.  We had a similar post a couple of weeks ago.

    We have had this in our garden for at least 36 years, and although I pull it up, I have never succeeded in getting rid of it completely, and it does spread quite easily.  There are red berries on it in the Autumn/Winter here which I assume are poisonous. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Yes, the berries are toxic - but the flowers are strangely beautiful and fascinating and there's loads of folklore about them.  A wonderful plant in a woodland setting .... just not in a flower border. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    I quite like it and keep several clumps in my garden as it likes moist shade which I have a lot of But yes the berries are poisonous but very pretty.

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • Eynsham RedEynsham Red Posts: 55

    Thank you everyone for your answers.  It seems there is a consensus for Lords and Ladies.  I've just looked on Google images which confirms that this is what the plant is.

    I think that I will make a more consertive attempt at trying to get rid of it now as I've recently become a grandparent and the plant is just outside the garden door.

    I remember it now from my childhood roamings in the local wood, and as Dove says, it's a lovely plant for the woodland, not a flower border.

    Thank you all again.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Eynsham Red says:

    I remember it now from my childhood roamings in the local wood, and as Dove says, it's a lovely plant for the woodland, not a flower border.

    Thank you all again.

    See original post

     Except my flower borders image

    But maybe they're not really flower borders in the accepted sense.

    They have flowers in them though, so they must be.

    Hmmm.

    Dove, you've seen them, are they flower borders?



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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