What is this sprouting tuber?

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  1. stephenprudence

    stephenprudence GC Weather Guru

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    sort of looks Potato like, but I haven't introduced any potato or vegetable bulbs/tubers into this area?

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    Could be japanese anenome? Leaves are too young for me to tell.
     
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    The leaves look right for one of the tuberous Salvias. Maybe S.patens or one of the S.guaranitica cultivars such as "Black and Blue".
     
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    I haven't pruchased any Salvia bulbs either.. bit of a strange one really.. I certainly didn't, to my knowledge, plant anything there, but it is emerging from a tuberous structure as you can see.
     
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    Certainly looks like one to me though - I have a few coming back to life here. However, the tubers of those Salvia that grow them are usually vertical and in clusters like Dahlia tubers.
     
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