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Silkstonephil

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Can anyone identify this plant please
« on: August 15, 2018, 09:42:32 »
Hi

Have been asked to identify what this plant might be?

Any ideas please?

Cheers  :happy7:

saddad

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2018, 09:47:43 »
Not without the photo!

Silkstonephil

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2018, 09:50:14 »
Thanks

I have attached it but it says waiting for moderation

Silkstonephil

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2018, 09:52:10 »
Here is a link,i have posted it on an external site

https://postimg.cc/image/5hmclxzlz/

squeezyjohn

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2018, 14:08:42 »
It looks like callaloo / amaranth to me.

saddad

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2018, 14:12:08 »
It's familiar.. but no not a positive ID.. looks like a Chenopodiaceae  it's too tall for Good King Henry... could be Orache (Atriplex hortensis). Some spinach, but not leaf beet look like that. So do a lot of edible weeds. What context is it in.. looks like a deliberately planted block rather than random self sets. Possibly Callaloo as Squeezyjohn suggests.

Digeroo

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2018, 14:49:09 »
Quinoa?

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2018, 17:23:48 »
See:
https://www.hunker.com/12002492/how-to-grow-callaloo-seeds
I think that it is callalo, no experience of it at all.
 Have got Aztec Broccoli and Aramanthus from real seeds on the go . Has provided an additional salad ingredient in the supplement to poorly producing , drought afflicted lettuce.
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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2018, 19:53:43 »
callaloo sometimes can be red viened  fellow plot holder gave me some last week very nice it was too lightly steamed with feta cheese in filo parcels
johhnyc015  may the plot be with you

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Re: Can anyone identify this plant please
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2018, 10:44:00 »
Just another spinach substitute - I was advised to cook it in coconut "cream" and it was good - but I think proper "summer spinach" would be even better, and so would my favourite sub which is the NZ stuff or the wild version of NZ  that grows on sunny Atlantic coasts - I think the french call it "tetragon".

Incidentally, wild sea beet leaves from the E coast are by far the next best - much better than any of the other chardy ones.

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