Topic: Mystery plant ID

[lilylover]

Not sure where to put this as I don't know what it is. It self seeded last summer in a pot (birds or wind?) Pretty flower though even if it's a weed. Anybody any ideas please?

[machman5]

??? Not about this but could it be a Mullein
Donna  :D

[sarah]

Thats a triffid Lilylover.   :)
What a beautiful garden you have.

[machman5]

Nah, just looked it up, not a Mullein  ?? :-\

[Palustris]

Oenothera biennis, Evening primrose?

[machman5]

I agree palustrus, just looked that up too.  It looks very much like it.
Love your garden Lilylover :D

[Robert_Brenchley]

If it is evening primrose, it's not the sort that grows on my site. Definitely not mullein anyway.

[tilts]

I thin it could be rape seed?

[Mrs Ava]

No, not like my evening primrose either, not the Rape that grows in abundance around here.  hmmmm

[lilylover]

Might be on to something with the rapeseed, the leaves look the same when I googled  :)  So am I best getting rid of it?
Thank you all for your help  and garden comments (Just glad you can't see the really grotty bits where I'm redeveloping! It's like a bomb site!  :-[  )

[Ceratonia]

Evening primrose is quite variable, so maybe not surprising we all have different ideas what it looks like? A simple test would be whether the flowers open up and smell nice in the evening? Mine doesn't flower until later in the year, though.

Rapeseed has just started flowering, so seems like a good guess to me. Do the leaves look and smell slightly cabbagey? Slightly scented flowers? In spite of being surrounded on all 4 sides by it, I've never had any self-sown seedlings.

[Mrs Ava]

Flipping stuff springs up everywhere around here thanks to the fields of it.  If you like it, I wouldn't get rid of it until it starts setting seeds, then, unless you want more of it, pull it up!  ;D

[Tora]

It's definitely not evening primrose. I think it's some kind of brassica plant. My Mibuna plants are flowering now and the flowers have really strong scent. Looks really similar to the one in the pic.

[lilylover]

Flowers are open during the day and when it started sprouting I definitely thought it was Brassica- ish. These are the leaves below. Seems everything is pointing towards rapeseed.  ;)
Thank you all for helping. x

[MrsKP]

i think it's beautful and i certainly wouldn't get rid.

and i absolutely love your garden  ........... now where can i fit my water feature  ::)

[flowerlady]

Its grown as green maure surely?  Rape has an overpwering pong by the field full, but is without doubt a very pretty flower, not unlike a cherianthus! ::)

[sallylockhart]

does it smell like mouldy cabbages? If so, it is definitely rape - Personally I would get rid of it before it self seeds and you get thousands of the things next year as rape pollen can be v bad for allergies.

btw - farmer friend of a friend was prosecuted for 'rape on a public footpath' and had to campaign long and hard to get it changed to 'crops ...' as the former was not a good thing to have on record  ::)