Identify Please

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  1. alana

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    I have identified most of the plants in my garden now but these three have defeated me. Please can someone help?

    [align=center]No. One: Weed, plant or baby tree?
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    [align=center]No. Two: Flower and leaves[/align]
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    No. Three: Emerging Flower Head and Leaves

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    This plant is about three feet high and about three feet diameter so takes up a lot of space in my garden. It has a death warrant on it if the flowers don't look good:)[/align]
     
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    Hi Alana

    The first one looks like Cannabis, often present in birdseed. I'm afraid I can't identify the other two.
     
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    Victoria is right, hope theres no coppers reading this.
     
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    It's considered a wildflower in certain Med countries ... :hehe: My friend was asking about it last evening for using in cakes. :skp:
     
  5. alana

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    Well - that's interesting folks:oops: - I have visions of stoned birds in my garden although the seed is probably not as potent as the leaves.

    That's for the id - hope the others aren't hallucegenic plants:hehe
     
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    It goes well in biscuits as well :) - but :oops:, as I don't know anything about it, I wouldn't recognise it - nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more :wink:. :hehe:

    I seem to recognise the other two but will ask Mrs shiney (the font of all knowledge) when she is available. I think we have the second one somewhere in our garden :scratch:. The third one looks a bit like evening primrose.
     
  7. Phil A

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    You could be right about the evening primrose shiney, middle one could be a pink maybe.

    No tetrahydrocanibinols in pot seed, the leaves will produce THC in hot weather & dry conditions. The pot plant produces the resin to stop the leaves dehydrating.
     
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    Thanks for the information guys, much appreciated. Good conditions here for the THC:D

    I don't think it's a pink (No. 2), no smell and tall, grass like, leaves about 2 feet high. I thought it was a grass until I saw the flower which doesn't look as if it belongs to the leaves.:scratch:

    Evening primrose could be right - I recall having a few little ones last year. This one is quite a monster. I look forward to seeing the flower. I can live with evening primroses - I thought it may have been a euphorbia. I would certainly boot it out if it was.
     
  9. Phil A

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    So you'd purge the spurge then, gotta be a song in that somewhere :doh:
     
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    I think there's something weird about green flowers or bracts that pretend to be flowers):(
     
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