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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: Alex_ on June 13, 2017, 11:10:23 am

Title: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: Alex_ on June 13, 2017, 11:10:23 am
I saw it growing a lot in the lake district. Thanks  :tree:
Title: Re: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: Fleecewife on June 13, 2017, 11:27:25 am
It's a rhododendron.
Title: Re: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: VEG on June 15, 2017, 09:51:16 pm
as above
Title: Re: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: Alex_ on June 16, 2017, 01:07:49 pm
Thanks  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: regen on June 26, 2017, 06:49:22 am
Probably ponticum which is extremely invasive and once established difficult to eradicate.

Regen
Title: Re: can anyone identify this plant?
Post by: devonlady on June 27, 2017, 10:40:44 am
It's a rhododendron.


Or, as a small girl told her class-mates with great authority " that's a Rosydandrop" and so it has been called in our family ever since!