Please Help Identify Seedling
 

"Robert Chehey" wrote in message

If anyone has seen the plant pictured, please tell me what it is.
It
is probably an Euphorbia, because of the leaf arrangement and acrid
white latex, but I've never seen this one before.

It appeared as a seedling in an area where I lost a Palm. The soil
and palm came from North Carolina.

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Robert L. Chehey

Boise, ID, USA, USDA Zone 7. Heat zone 7
Cold, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe (K?ppen BSk )
and deciduous riparian forest
N43?38.67' W116?13.68' Altitude: 816M
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I don't know what format you attachment was in but it is just garbage on
my end and I rarely have problems viewing pictures.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

Please Help Identify Seedling
 

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:15:38 GMT, "Travis M."
wrote:

"Robert Chehey" wrote in message

If anyone has seen the plant pictured, please tell me what it is.
It
is probably an Euphorbia, because of the leaf arrangement and acrid
white latex, but I've never seen this one before.

It appeared as a seedling in an area where I lost a Palm. The soil
and palm came from North Carolina.

********************************************
Robert L. Chehey

Boise, ID, USA, USDA Zone 7. Heat zone 7
Cold, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe (K?ppen BSk )
and deciduous riparian forest
N43?38.67' W116?13.68' Altitude: 816M
********************************************
????z,a_?
9?????Y???
9??r?|?sK?K$Na?'?Q?s?z?8g5t????????1?5?[?S????P????*Mi?KE;?F??*bU?EtV????u??V?????!R???GK ??LI??????a?????vc?$?q?s?v3)?"???-?TR?YT???n?o???`?m??J?OQ\?I7????mf???\
?e???:?4??????????&????hQ!?P?C?rk

I don't know what format you attachment was in but it is just garbage on
my end and I rarely have problems viewing pictures.
It is nothing we can see. Just as you say, hash.

Please Help Identify Seedling
 

Travis M. wrote:
"Robert Chehey" wrote in message

If anyone has seen the plant pictured, please tell me what it is.
It
is probably an Euphorbia, because of the leaf arrangement and acrid
white latex, but I've never seen this one before.

It appeared as a seedling in an area where I lost a Palm. The soil
and palm came from North Carolina.

********************************************
Robert L. Chehey

Boise, ID, USA, USDA Zone 7. Heat zone 7
Cold, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe (K?ppen BSk )
and deciduous riparian forest
N43?38.67' W116?13.68' Altitude: 816M
********************************************
????z,a_?
9?????Y???
9??r?|?sK?K$Na?'?Q?s?z?8g5t???????? 1?5?[?S????P????*Mi?KE;?F??*bU?EtV????u??V?????!R???GK ??LI??????a?????vc?$?q?s?v3)?"???-?TR?YT???n?o???`?m??J?OQ\?I7????mf???\
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I don't know what format you attachment was in but it is just garbage on
my end and I rarely have problems viewing pictures.



It's supposed to be a JPEG file, but it looks like it was improperly
attached. Possibly Robert included it rather than attaching it. Or else
it is a corrupted file.

Please Help Identify Seedling - Strange seedling.JPG (0/1)
 

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:41:00 -0500, Wolf
wrote:

Trying again !!!

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Robert L. Chehey

Boise, ID, USA, USDA Zone 7. Heat zone 7
Cold, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe (K?ppen BSk )
and deciduous riparian forest
N43?38.67' W116?13.68' Altitude: 816M
********************************************

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Please Help Identify Seedling - Strange seedling.JPG (1/1)
 

"Robert Chehey" wrote in message


Looks like a fully grown plant to me.

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

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"Robert Chehey" wrote in message
...

That's better!

It's a wild Euphorbia. It's the one they call caper spurge, I think
(Euphorbia lathyrus). But don't try pickling those seeds!

And the sap can be caustic on some skins, it used to be put on warts.

But it's a fascinating plant, a biennial usually. The second year it loses
that splendid columnar estate with directly opposing leaves.

We love it!

One of its lesser cousins is small and soft with a very different shape and
it grows everywhere in my garden, the hens don't eat it so I do have some
patches of green.

Mary

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"Robert Chehey" wrote in message
...

Mary is right. Here in England we call it a Mole Plant because it's reputed
to repel moles from your garden. We don't have moles, so it must work :-)

someone

Please Help Identify Seedling - Strange seedling.JPG (1/1)
 

Thanks to Mary and Someone.
You are right is is Euphorbia lathyrus or mole plant or gopher spurge,
a southern European native. I just hadn't seen it in this part of the
world before..

Bob

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:27:11 -0000, "someone"
wrote:


"Robert Chehey" wrote in message
.. .

Mary is right. Here in England we call it a Mole Plant because it's reputed
to repel moles from your garden. We don't have moles, so it must work :-)

someone