Hi

My neighbour needs help identifying a plant. It has grown in the place where they used to have a compost heap along with some other random plants although no one in the area can seem to tell her what it is.

I have included some pictures, 01 is a picture of the flower that appears on the plant. This then dies off and is replaced by a hairy looking thing that is pictured in 02. Finally, 03 is a picture of the whole plant.

Any help would be appreciated as it seems to be driving my neighbours mad not knowing what it is!

Thanks

Sorry, the first image is the plant itself, the second is the flower and the third is the unknown object that appears after the flower has died off. Thanks again

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I wondered when we'd get this question for this year ;-)
If "no-one can tell her what it is" the answer is almost always Thorn apple, Datura stramonium, and that is indeed the answer in this case. Nice pics, but the way.

Thank you so much! I shall go and let her know now as it's been turning into a big mystery around here

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Hi

My neighbour needs help identifying a plant. It has grown in the place
where they used to have a compost heap along with some other random
plants although no one in the area can seem to tell her what it is.

I have included some pictures, 01 is a picture of the flower that
appears on the plant. This then dies off and is replaced by a hairy
looking thing that is pictured in 02. Finally, 03 is a picture of the
whole plant.

Any help would be appreciated as it seems to be driving my neighbours
mad not knowing what it is!

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium). It is one of the more poisonous plants
out there. (If I understand correctly it's in the same range as deadly
nightshade and hemlock.)

Thanks

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Stewart Robert Hinsley

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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , ugo82
writes

My neighbour needs help identifying a plant. It has grown in the place
where they used to have a compost heap along with some other random
plants although no one in the area can seem to tell her what it is.

I have included some pictures, 01 is a picture of the flower that
appears on the plant. This then dies off and is replaced by a hairy
looking thing that is pictured in 02. Finally, 03 is a picture of the
whole plant.

Any help would be appreciated as it seems to be driving my neighbours
mad not knowing what it is!

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium). It is one of the more poisonous plants
out there. (If I understand correctly it's in the same range as deadly
nightshade and hemlock.)

Not really. It's more poisonous than deadly nightshade, but that's
not saying much. By tropical standards, it's only ordinarily
poisonous - nothing exceptional. I agree that it's very poisonous
by UK standards.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In message , ugo82
writes

Hi

My neighbour needs help identifying a plant. It has grown in the place
where they used to have a compost heap along with some other random
plants although no one in the area can seem to tell her what it is.

I have included some pictures, 01 is a picture of the flower that
appears on the plant. This then dies off and is replaced by a hairy
looking thing that is pictured in 02. Finally, 03 is a picture of the
whole plant.

Any help would be appreciated as it seems to be driving my neighbours
mad not knowing what it is!

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium). It is one of the more poisonous plants
out there. (If I understand correctly it's in the same range as deadly
nightshade and hemlock.)


There's been articles about D. stramonium in the newspapers all last week,
about someone who found one growing on their compost heap or something. It
appeared to have come in on a pot plant from a garden centre.

We probably all grow some poisonous thing or other in our gardens, be it
lilies, laburnum, nightshade, or whatever. Lots of people have Daturas of
various varieties in their gardens. I have a Hippobroma longiflora which I
have been nurturing for many years waiting for it to flower, but I treat it
with caution.

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