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ID please i have found this plant growing in my mum in laws garden very new to me, it has a flower bud i am very interested to to know what it is and see the flower



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Hello for me a look like Caper or Euphorbia

21 Mar, 2021

 

Looking g a 2 th time I will say Caper

21 Mar, 2021

 

Euphorbia rigida. Sometimes appears out of the blue and puzzles people!

21 Mar, 2021

 

Caper sprudge is Euphorbia rigida

21 Mar, 2021

 

Gopher sprudge is Caper Sprudge in French =Euphorbia Rigida

21 Mar, 2021

 

Funnily enough one has appeared in my garden and I noticed today too. No idea where the seed came from.
Caper spurge is not edible. The sap is milky and can cause a nasty chemical burn if you get it on your skin and then get the sun on it.

it is supposed to deter moles and gophers, it doesn't!

21 Mar, 2021

 

Just looked it up and seen that it has other aliases as well. More names than it knows what to do with!

21 Mar, 2021

 

You are right sorry i had a few drinks and feeling very tired🥂

21 Mar, 2021

 

I see this plant popping up all around the neighbourhood,but so far not in my garden. I think all the Euphorbias are attractive plants.

22 Mar, 2021

 

There are two kinds of Euphorbia called gopher spurge. This one is the biennial E. lathyris. E. rigida is a different plant altogether.

22 Mar, 2021

 

Well I suppose one of us had to get it right eventually Tug!
I did check on line before trying to answer the question so the illustration I found when I checked must have been mislabelled. I remember an uncle getting one in his allotment in the late 1940s and asking my mother what it was. We thought that it looked very foreign!

Mossy you have nothing to apologise for...

22 Mar, 2021

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