Can anyone help identify this weird plant?

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Paddywack

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Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« on: July 25, 2013, 18:34 »
Can anyone identify this plant, it appeared on top of a mound of earth in my garden early this year , It’s now about 3ft tall with a single stem, the top is 2ft in diameter  I have asked around and nobody has seen anything like it







Thanks for your help in advance

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2013, 20:16 »
It looks like some variety of euphorbia to me. :)

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2013, 20:19 »
I tried to add a link, and can't! Google caper spurge, euphorbia lathyris .

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2013, 20:55 »
Thanks DD  :)

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2013, 21:53 »
Thanks for solving that, 

Wikipedia says it’s native to southern Europe,

So I guess that it came across and deposited in bird droppings and survived due to the warm weather,

it is a strange looking plant!

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2013, 22:06 »
I had a couple of those that a chap at work gave me once.  Nice plant, no flowers, but when the seed heads open, they explode EVERYWHERE!!!!!!    :( :(

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Re: Can anyone help identify this weird plant?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2013, 17:46 »
Caper spurge



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