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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 09/01/2009 : 21:20:12
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It has to be a weed as I did not plant it..
Who or what is it  Does Anyone Know...
I wonder what that is up top of that bottom pic..
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/01/2009 : 05:07:40
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It is a weed though don't know the name of it. We get it here. The flowers turn into little fluffy seeds that blow easily in the wind.
Looks like an old dried flower head from another plant on top
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
 Posted - 10/01/2009 : 06:56:38
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Thanks Gail.. That thing up top does look like a dried out flower-head on it in the light of day, guess I was tired last night when I posted it 
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 10:16:13
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Reminds me of Thistle Pitta
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 10:29:43
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No not a thistle Gwen its not spiky enough..
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 11:31:29
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I did look up all the weeds in Oz Gwen, and the closest it got to looking like any thistles was the Sowthistle Sonchus oleraceus but the leaves were wrong and some of their photos are not the best either
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 11:55:51
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We actually call it a thistle, my father used to too, as it is similar to others called milk thistle - has a slightly milky sap and the fluffy seeds are very much alike - it is just a common name. Some people know the scotch thistle as a milk thistle and there is another one I've also heard called a milk thistle so, as like most common names, it varies from person to person.
I just looked it up - the one I know as milk thistle is also called Common Sow Thistle, Sonchus oleraceus. Mary-Anne, yours is fairly similar in growth habits to this one but looks different - leaves, flower colour but same sort of seed heads - it wouldn't suprise me if they were distantly related - I would like to find out the proper name. Yours isn't hard to get rid of as long as you don't let it seed. We have them here but don't see them often so not too much of a pest here. Animals and birds like them.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 12:04:31
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I pulled it up the other day Gail.
I have got enough weeds here now and dont need more of them as they are too big.
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Some Type Of Weed