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[glenn forger]

Wot's the plant in the foreground?

 

[Mrs M]

Think it's a Fatsia Japonica.

 

[Dave 123]

Wot's the plant in the foreground?

If it is it should be flowering about now- white bobbly things on white stems, and the insects love them....

 

[glenn forger]

Nope. I know the answer, it's an unusual one. Japan is warm.

 

[Paulus]

I think it is a false caster oil plant.

from the net---

I used to have one some years back. They can grow quite large.

 

[Mrs M]

Japanese auralias (Fatsia Japonica) .

 

[Paulus]

Japanese auralias (Fatsia Japonica) .

I never knew the proper name, thank you Mrs M.

 

[Mrs M]

I bought two last year from the bargain shelf at Homebase.
They have really grown, there's one behind the washing .

 

[glenn forger]

Nope.

 

[Mrs M]

Mutant cannabis?

 

[glenn forger]

http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/tetrapanax-papyrifer-rex.html

Tetrapanax, the Chinese Rice Paper plant, the one in the photo is from the Bishop of Norwich's garden.

 

[glenn forger]

I mean I paid for it.

 

[User16390]

Here is a possible challenge for you. This lives on my computer desk. What is it?

 

[Mrs M]

Is it a sweetheart plant?

 

[Mrs M]

Is it a sweetheart plant?