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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: escapedtothecountry on July 21, 2013, 09:15:08 pm

Title: Any ideas?
Post by: escapedtothecountry on July 21, 2013, 09:15:08 pm

What could this plant be?

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Post by: doganjo on July 21, 2013, 09:28:14 pm

Don't know but I saw something similar in the field where I've just been walking the dogs.

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Post by: escapedtothecountry on July 21, 2013, 09:36:33 pm

It's a perennial as came up last year. Large.... I quite like it!

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Post by: doganjo on July 21, 2013, 10:00:52 pm

Me too, looks like a sun icon  ;D

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Post by: ddangus on July 23, 2013, 02:04:17 pm

It a perrenial plant from the daisy family called Telekia speciosa not sure whether it has got a common Englsih name. In time it will form a large plant several meters wide definetly something for the back border. The bumblebees and hoverflies seem to like it.

DD

Title: Re: Any ideas?
Post by: escapedtothecountry on July 23, 2013, 03:28:39 pm

Brilliant! Thanks! May transplant it somewhere out if the overgrown bed I found it in.

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Post by: doganjo on July 23, 2013, 03:30:10 pm

Ox Eye daisy?  Just remembered.  Seen them in fields.

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Post by: Hevxxx99 on July 23, 2013, 09:17:22 pm

No, Ox Eye Daisies look like giant normal daisies.
It looks like sunflower family with those leaves and I'll wager it isn't a native.

Title: Re: Any ideas?
Post by: doganjo on July 23, 2013, 10:29:07 pm

Botanical name: Telekia speciosa

Other names: Heart-leaved ox eye, Ox-eye daisy, Yellow ox-eye, Buphthalmum speciosum

You can see why I was mistaken, they are very similar.

Title: Re: Any ideas?
Post by: Hevxxx99 on July 24, 2013, 09:33:54 am

Leucanthemum vulgare I believe is the native Oxeye Daisy. 

One of my very favourite flowers.  :love:

Yours, it says, is a native of Southern Europe so must be feral.  ;D