Help, identify this?

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2010, 00:55 »
I immediately said lettuce...that doesnt help, I know that  ???
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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2010, 10:29 »
its not horseradish

this is horseradish

horseradish.jpg

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2010, 18:22 »
Nice :)
What a great patch of horseraddish Monsta
I can feel it burning my nostrils
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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #33 on: March 24, 2010, 18:33 »
Nice :)
What a great patch of horseraddish Monsta
I can feel it burning my nostrils

Try eating it!  :lol:
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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #34 on: March 24, 2010, 19:21 »
The hotter the better JayG  8)

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #35 on: March 24, 2010, 20:28 »
nice pic of mature horseraddish the yonge leves are good in a spring salad  that is def horseraddish wate and see  ::)

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #36 on: March 24, 2010, 20:41 »
I'm sure with the horseradish I used to have in the garden, the young leaves were just like the mature leaves only smaller, not a different shape!

It does look more like a salad leaf to me, but salad leaves don't grow from tubers!

We are not being much help are we??  :(

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #37 on: March 24, 2010, 21:06 »
It does look to me like Field Scabious or possibly Valerian, which both start off with round leaves and become serrated with age.
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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #38 on: March 24, 2010, 21:36 »
have you tried tasting the leaves? surely that's a pretty important clue if it's a herb? :blink:

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2010, 21:42 »
 Could it be a Winter Radish?

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #40 on: March 25, 2010, 09:25 »
Could it be Japanese horseraddish? I can't enlarge the picture so can't see it properly
Edit:- No it's not japanese horseraddish, I looked into that idea a bit more

« Last Edit: March 25, 2010, 09:46 by mr Isaccs »

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #41 on: March 25, 2010, 09:30 »
It's certainly not young horseraddish as we know it though


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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #42 on: March 25, 2010, 10:00 »
Poppies....

Poppy
« Last Edit: March 25, 2010, 10:15 by Aunt Sally »

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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #43 on: March 25, 2010, 10:48 »
I did taste it last year, when it was quite young and the leaves were small, it didnt taste of much back then but the plant is now developing and the leaves are much bigger. I will have another taste at the weekend.

No reply from who I beleived to be the original supplier. I also posted the image on the RHS forum, nobody has come up with an answer as yet.

Its quite frustrating, but fun, I guess...  :)
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Re: Help, identify this?
« Reply #44 on: March 25, 2010, 12:41 »
Agapanthus is probably right, as you can propagate the perennial poppies from root cuttings, could be planted with the herbs to use the seeds in cooking  :unsure:


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