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Plant ID please
On 05/09/2020 20:57, David Hill wrote:
On 05/09/2020 20:52, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: On 05/09/2020 15:13, David wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:08:36 +0000, David wrote: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smutte.../shares/2Ez874 I am trying out Apps and the first one suggested Oxybasis rubra. I played with an ID site a while back (forgotten now which one) which suggested a halucinogenic sometimes smoked with Cannabis and with dangerous seeds. Still trying to track back. Anyway I was waiting for it to flower but it seems a little too rampant so is due for removal very soon. Two separate Apps go for Oxybasis Rubra so it looks as though the original ID, although dangerous and exciting, was wrong. Yes, Oxybasis rubra (the second part of the name is not capitalised) aka Chenopodium rubrum - it turns up in a variety of places such as maize fields, the drawdown zone of reservoirs, manure piles, and roadside gutters. This is abiut as close to flowering as it gets - i.e. the flowers aren't very showy. If you use a handlens, or take a macro photograph, you should be able to see the stamens sticking out of the flowers. Cheers Dave R For those of us not scientific, it's a form of Fathen. The usual English name is red goosefoot. I'd restrict fathen to the Chenopodium album aggregate. (Floras restrict the name to Chenopodium album, but since the rest of the aggregate is rather difficult to identify - all I can manage is fig-leaved goosefoot and maybe quinoa - I expect that in practice the name is applied to the aggregate.) -- SRH |
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