In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
Two plants have just surfaced in my brother's garden in Brighton. They
seem to have germinated in recently laid gravel.
I feel I ought to know them as they have a distinctive bud shape,
reminiscent of okra.
Can you identify please? Web page is
http://www.lancedal.net/aga/strangeplant.htm
Plant is flowering now.
Janet
I'd make it Salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius. I haven't seen the plant in
life, but it shows an obvious relationship to Goatsbeard, Tragopogon
pratensis., Nowt to do with Okra.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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