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leafbliss
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Hello everyone. I am looking for some advice if anyone can please help. I have just moved to a lovely cottage in Cornwall and am enjoying planning what to do with the garden. Bordering one part of the garden is a fence and on the other side is a large bit of land which is totally overgrown with all sorts of weeds. One weed in particular has started to come under the fence and up through our grass. I have taken some pictures of the offending weed and would be grateful if anyone could identify it. My fear is that it may be Japanese knotweed.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
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to upload a photo, make it smaller, the site can't cope with normal size pics but doesn't tell you when you try.
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't worry.... it's definitely not Japanese Knotweed.
It doesn't appear to be Hedge Bindweed, Field Bindweed, Black Brytony, White Bryrony, Black Bindweed, Russian Vice, Morning Glory, Runner bean leaves etc.
Not too sure on this one
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Have a look at Physalis/Chinese Lantern .......... I'm not saying it is, but there's a similarity and it can be very invasive.
What do the roots look like?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is it showing any signs of twining around anything anywhere?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thankf God you're on here, Dove !!!
This is one incredibly strange wildflower/weed and its foliage looks alien. Got a feeling it's a climber due to the tendrils in pic 3 but it hasn't got much to climb on ... yet.
The size of the leaves in comparison to the featherboard lats at the back of the garden is astonishing
Might be a curveball but looks like Chinese Yam? Not sure if we even have that in U.K.
It looks more like Hedge Bindweed than anything else I can think of, but the leaves don't look quite right and I'd have expected to see more twining tendrils ......... but this plant is in Cornwall ........ in the rest of the country it dies down in winter, but if it's been mild enough for it not to have died down ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know very little indeed about yams ... I found this http://succulent-plant.com/families/dioscoreaceae.html
What do folks think?
The other thing that keeps coming into my head is Atropa belladonna?
But I've never seen a vast stand of it like that ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you everyone for your comments. I will need to dig some up to look at the roots. It doesn't seem to be clinging to anything or winding its way around anything. Rather, it just grows straight up - as high as 5-6 foot in places. It seems to have gone mad and shot up in the past 6 weeks or so - we didn't notice it until then. There is plenty of opportunity for it to latch onto something and wind its way around it but that hasn't happened. The rapid growth and spreading (both up and across) is why I was worried about it being knotweed. I don't think Chinese Lantern as the leaves are not quite right. The yam idea seems the closest so far but again not exact. We have been digging up huge roots under the lawn (if you can all it that - more weeds than anything) and funnily enough my husband said it looked like some sort of vegetable. However, I think they are stinging nettles roots. As I say, I am new to all this and have a lot to learn. Very grateful to you all :-)