"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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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.

Well guessed. I have never seen porrifolius but a quick google says you are
right.
Pratensis has yellow flowers but the buds have the same odd shape.


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