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"PaulK" writes:
| "Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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| And fairly widely available in garden centres as house plants.
| As with many such plants, they will grow in the UK but probably
| not ripen viable seed.
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| I've never tried sowing my own seed as I grow named varieties but the seed
| certainly looks like the seed frompackets when it sets!

Yes. There are a lot of plants that set seed, but not necessarily
viable seed. I think that Ricinus communis is one, or else it
would be a more widespread casual - it is a casual, but not very
widespread.

Japanese privet is one of the classics.


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Nick Maclaren,
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