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6 Ft, Sunflower-like Weed?
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Jlibra64
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: 6 Ft, Sunflower-like Weed? |
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HI folks,
Sure hope you can help me. I have a plant that I initially thought was a Sunflower, however, there isn't a sunflower head on it, and it doesn't have the "fuzzy" like stem. The stem is smooth. This weed or plant also seems to be having babies. There appears to be about six of them in a 10 Ft. area. Rapid growth. Leaves have reached 12-15 inches in a tear drop shape and is approx. 5 inches wide at the widest point. Sorry, I don't have a camera to upload a picture.
Thanks, for any tips you may have.
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glendann
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Its hard to identify anything like that without a picture.
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Frank
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Jlibra64. As pointed out it would be very hard to identify your mystery plant without a photo. Is it possible that you could borrow a digital camera from a friend or neighbour? We really would like to help you out.
// Frank
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Jlibra64
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: Giant Weed |
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[url]jlibra64@photobucket.com Sorry guys. I took the picture, uploaded, resized on photobucket, saved to desktop and now I can't seem to upload the picture onto here! But, I did include the url in this reply. I will keep trying. Thanks![/url]
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toni
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Put the picture here directly from photobucket. Under each picture are three choices...URL, HTML and IMG. Click on the IMG, click on copy, then start a reply, click on Paste. The code for the picture will show up, then under where you post a reply click on preview and the picture will show up if it was done correctly.
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Frank
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Sort of a repeat of what Toni posted but have a read of this topic Jlibra, it should help:
http://www.gardenstew.com/about4115.html
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pharmerphil
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Inula helenium (elecampane) perhaps?
here's a pic from our herb garden, I don't have, but can get a pic of the leaves, but the description sounds correct.don't know if this is what you have.
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Jlibra64
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi pharmerphil. It does look very much like your plant. The only thing is, it never bloomed. Believing that it was nothing more than a weed, I ripped it out. Did you say it's a type of herb? Or is it that it just happens to be growing within your herb garden?
Thanks for the help, folks. I appreciate it. Take care.
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pharmerphil
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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a very good link Eileen, thanks, there are so many uses for inula, I didn't know where to start!
Yes Jlibra, this is one of the many medicinal herbs in the herb garden.
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