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Title: What is this weed?
Post by: glosterwomble on April 02, 2008, 11:31:49
Can anyone identify this 'weed'. A friend of mine brought it to me thinking I could tell her what it is and whilst it is familiar to me I have no idea what it is.
???

(Sorry for quality of pic, I had to scan it and my scanner is doing this weird yellow background!!)
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: Barnowl on April 02, 2008, 11:51:19
Bindweed?
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: springbok on April 02, 2008, 11:55:34
Im no expert, but it looks like a bean leaf to me
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: springbok on April 02, 2008, 11:56:55
Quote from: Barnowl on April 02, 2008, 11:51:19
Bindweed?

I think your right barnowl, coz they look like heart shaped leaves, just the way they are in the pic :D
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: Suzanne on April 02, 2008, 12:55:46
Could it be Arum (Lords and Ladies, Cuckoopint). I don't think this flowers yet but its leaves look very much like your photo.
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: glosterwomble on April 02, 2008, 14:17:47
thank you all, the leaves don't show very well on the scan so it does look a bit bindweed like which is what the friend had thought, having had to contend with bindweed in a previous garden I knew it wasn't that.

It is Lords and Ladies (Arum Maculatem) I've trawled google now thankyou  Suzanne, I said to her that it looked a bit Lily like so there we are!  :)
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: saddad on April 02, 2008, 17:08:09
and it's still too cold for such big leaves on bindweed...
:o
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: Barnowl on April 02, 2008, 17:11:37
Lucky I put in a question Mark :)
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: Baaaaaaaa on April 02, 2008, 18:04:47
Can you give us some sort of scale.

How big are the leaves?
How many leaves on the plant?
Do the leaves form a rosette on the ground, or is there a stalk with the leaves comming off ?
Title: Re: What is this weed?
Post by: ACE on April 02, 2008, 18:29:22
Arum