Yes, I have looked on Google but still unsure. Can't get an exact match on any but the Sorrel which has been identified.

It'd help us all if you could give reasons. The picture I posted of a cannabis seedling looked remarkably like the picture Lintama posted, so what are the differences that you can see, either from that, or from your own experience, that makes you think that it's not?

You say the first isn't morning glory which is Ipomea, but the genus Ipomea has quite a number of species and varieties which look wildly different as seedlings - I've got two batches at the moment, one of which looks very like Lintama's, the other looking completely different. Lintama says hers isn't climbing, and it probably would be showing climbing tendencies by now, so it's probably right - was that what you were basing your comment on?

I'm not getting at you, but I use these threads to increase my own knowledge as I expect others do, so it's helpful, when it gets into a discussion, if people say the reasons why something can't be something.

I am very grateful for everybody's input. It's not that I'm not happy, I am finding this rather fun actually as to me it is like trying to solve a mystery which it is anyway. I have looked at Google images until my eyes have gone square. Some are very like the plants I have but not exactly. The castor oil plant and the tetrapanax are very similar.

As for where the seeds came from, I am a bit fuzzy over it now. The plant which is like the morning glory I dug up from my garden. I have found two more small seedlings now from roughly the same place. The cannabis type plant also was dug up from my back garden. The castor oil type plant, I can't remember but not from Madeira. The other one which looks like a little fern is from Madeira. The sorrel was from Madeira too.

Yep. It's sorrel allright. Thank you.

If it's from your garden, it almost certainly won't be an Ipomea. They're not native to the UK, and they don't survive our winters. That said, I do have one in our gravel terrace which has just reached the cotyledon stage which looks remarkable like an Ipomea (they have strange double-barrelled cotyledons).

Have you looked at buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) of one of its relatives?

Not directly relevant, but I bumped into this interesing site:
Non-Native Plant Species - URS
- it has pictures of seedlings as well as mature plants

If it's from your garden, it almost certainly won't be an Ipomea. They're not native to the UK, and they don't survive our winters. That said, I do have one in our gravel terrace which has just reached the cotyledon stage which looks remarkable like an Ipomea (they have strange double-barrelled cotyledons).

Have you looked at buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) of one of its relatives?

Not directly relevant, but I bumped into this interesting site:
Non-Native Plant Species - URS
- it has pictures of seedlings as well as mature plants

Yes, the Fagopyrum esculentum is a very good match for my plant (no.1) Shouldn't be long before it flowers and that will clinch it. Where do you think would it come from? Do farmers grow it and what is it used for? We have lots of fields round us.

It's OK, I Googled it to find out what the uses are.

On 15/06/2013 22:32, kay wrote:
Lintama;985188 Wrote:


Can't be cannabis though. .

Why do you say that?

You said some of the seeds came from a car park in Malta, if I recall.
At one time, birdseed contained cannabis but in the UK it was banned.
Not sure whether the same happened elsewhere.


I'd be pretty certain (99.99%) that the plant in picture 4 is a form of
cannabis. Probably hemp (which is what was found in birdseed) rather
than the stuff you get high from.

It might have a slight smell - a sweetish smelling cross between cat
pee, tomato leaf and mint. The stronger the smell, the less hemp like
it will be

I think it's a UK native, so it will appear as a "weed" every now and then. The seeds are used as a cereal - you used to be able to get them in wholefood shops, and I think they're coming into fashion again as an alternative to rice. And aren't blinis made of buckwheat flour?

Just a thought but you said that wild bird seed used to contain cannabis seed, well I feed the birds a mixture of seed and I am now wondering if that's why I have this plant that looks like cannabis and in fact would explain it if it was a cannabis plant. Best I check the seed with the suppliers.

"News" wrote...

kay wrote:
LintamaWrote:


Can't be cannabis though. .

Why do you say that?

You said some of the seeds came from a car park in Malta, if I recall.
At one time, birdseed contained cannabis but in the UK it was banned.
Not sure whether the same happened elsewhere.


I'd be pretty certain (99.99%) that the plant in picture 4 is a form of
cannabis. Probably hemp (which is what was found in birdseed) rather
than the stuff you get high from.

It might have a slight smell - a sweetish smelling cross between cat
pee, tomato leaf and mint. The stronger the smell, the less hemp like
it will be

Well I'm even more certain of what it is and it certainly isn't cannabis.
Suggest you check out this link....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMS5thMmmlY

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

Thanks Kay. Just to let you know, you were right about the wild bird seed. The plant (no. 4) is indeed hemp and there is hemp seed in the mixed bag of seed so mystery solved on that one.

Thank you once again. I don't feel so nervous now. I will continue to grow it on. The girl at the seed supplier said they wouldn't be allowed to put cannabis seed in the mix. She was very helpful in explaining just what the mix contained.

Never had blinis so wouldn't know what the ingredients were.

NO. 4 IS HEMP. THE SEED CAME FROM MY WILD BIRD MIX. MYSTERY SOLVED ON THAT ONE.

You might be interested in this site, then
https://www.gov.uk/hemp-growing-licence

and for amusement, a rather ungrammatical petition which managed only 5 signatures:
Make Industrial Hemp Legal for anyone to grow without a Licence - e-petitions