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Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
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FRED58
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Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
This plant is growing by my campfire wood pile, I've been referring to it as my Triffid, because it looks like it's getting ready to walk away. Here's the whole plant:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi14](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi14.jpg)
The root that looks like its getting ready to move:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi15](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi15.jpg)
Little orchid like flowers:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi16](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi16.jpg)
And, a surprise: the seed pods "explode: when you touch them:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Trifid10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/trifid10.jpg)
With all the talk about Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and Wild Parsnips around here, I am genuinely concerned (not about walking killer plants from planet Zork).
Any thoughts?
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi14](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi14.jpg)
The root that looks like its getting ready to move:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi15](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi15.jpg)
Little orchid like flowers:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Triffi16](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/triffi16.jpg)
And, a surprise: the seed pods "explode: when you touch them:
![Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?) Trifid10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f21/19/21/38/09/trifid10.jpg)
With all the talk about Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and Wild Parsnips around here, I am genuinely concerned (not about walking killer plants from planet Zork).
Any thoughts?
FRED58-
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Location : Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
Pretty! Some type of wild pea? Pods and all!
https://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Lathyrus%20latifolius
Just an example, can't find that plant yet
https://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Lathyrus%20latifolius
Just an example, can't find that plant yet
Scorpio Rising-
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Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
http://www.eddmaps.org/IPANE/ipanespecies/herbs/Impatiens_glandulifera.htm
Does this look like your suspect? If so, pretty as it may be, it's pretty invasive, too.
Does this look like your suspect? If so, pretty as it may be, it's pretty invasive, too.
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Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
BING BING BING BING BING! We have a winner! I'll get rid of it tomorrow.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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FRED58-
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Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
The foliage doesn't seem right for a wild legume. I don't know what it is. I think I have never seen this before.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
Sure does! Interesting!
Scorpio Rising-
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memory of aliens
"The Trouble With Tribbles"
If anyone remembers that one.
If anyone remembers that one.
Rolling Stone-
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Location : SW FL - Zone 9A or maybe 10B.
Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
Yep, Trekkies Unite!
Scorpio Rising-
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Re: Can you identify this volunteer? (Maybe a Triffid?)
Maybe I could train a few Tribbles to eat the Triffid.
I found the source: the guy three houses away has a large clump at the corner of his yard. it is listed as "invasive", but it doesn't seem to be on the same level of Giant Hogweed yet. I wrapped mine in a large plastic garbage bag when I cut it down, then added a bit of RoundUp to the stump. I have tied the (black) bag closed and I have set it in the sun to bake.
Its DEAD Jim.
I found the source: the guy three houses away has a large clump at the corner of his yard. it is listed as "invasive", but it doesn't seem to be on the same level of Giant Hogweed yet. I wrapped mine in a large plastic garbage bag when I cut it down, then added a bit of RoundUp to the stump. I have tied the (black) bag closed and I have set it in the sun to bake.
Its DEAD Jim.
FRED58-
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