Anyone know anything about plants?

[Happynoj]

I have a new house. When I say new, I mean that it is as old as America (built around 1780) but I have only just acquired it. Anyway, it has a garden with plants. I have managed to identify most of them, but I'm struggling with this one, and I'm hoping that someone knows what it is.



Anyone got any ideas?

[MatticusMania]

To many leafs to be of use to me...

[Jazz Ad]

Are you sure that it's a plant and not a newborn tree?
It looks a lot like a chestnut sprout.

[Skitch it!]

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

Are you sure that it's a plant and not a newborn tree?
It looks a lot like a chestnut sprout.

+1 I'm thinking Horse Chestnut.

[chuck norriss]

I'll ask my girlfriend she's good at that ****
break off a small piece of the leaf & rub it together--what odor if any

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by SoonerMatt

Any flowers? That'll make identifying it much easier. (I have a bachelor's in botany, btw, but don't know much about plants in the UK)

No flowers yet. When they appear I'll get pics.

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

Are you sure that it's a plant and not a newborn tree?
It looks a lot like a chestnut sprout.

Pretty sure it's a plant. The leaves are on the end of a stem about 18-24 inches long with no other leaves on it. There are maybe 7 or 8 of the stems coming out of the ground next to each other, but they aren't joined above the surface.

EDIT: Also, the leaves are too thick and too dark a green to be chestnut.

[MJ5150]

Japanese maple?

-Mike

[elgecko]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

Japanese maple?

-Mike

Looks too waxy to be a Japanese Maple.

[bassrique]

These tree identification vids are related:

YouTube - Tree Identification Part One

YouTube - Tree Identification Part Two: Using a Field Guide

[Skitch it!]

Anything over-hanging? Your neighbours grow/plant anything?

I'm sure I've seen that before but wouldn't know what plant in particular.

[hover]

It's the beginning of your pod-person replacement. Don't fall asleep.

[GeneralElectric]

Its some sort of weird marijuana-poison ivy hybrid.

[JimB52]

That is a large flowering perennial, not a tree. I think it gets about 6 feet tall. The name escapes me at the moment, but it will come eventually.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

Its some sort of weird marijuana-poison ivy hybrid.

That explains the extra leaves!

[cdef]

Allegheny blackberry, perhaps? Or shrubby blackberry - hard to tell with such a young specimen, but some kind of Rubus is what it looks like.

[Downunderwonder]

I was going to say those leaves look very like raspberry cane leaves so that's a +1 I think.

re read your last post and the six or seven stems screams raspberries, yum!

[Downunderwonder]

btw, those creaper thingies in the background will take over all of life if they are the same ones we got. Can't get rid of them manually, they leave little bits in the ground, regrow, and spread and spread and spread, choking everything out in a season if you let them.

[6jase5]

Ni!

[Skitch it!]

Originally Posted by cdef

Allegheny blackberry, perhaps? Or shrubby blackberry - hard to tell with such a young specimen, but some kind of Rubus is what it looks like.

Dude!.....+1 Blackberry (well, for now : )

[Happynoj]

Waaaaay too big to be blackberry or raspberry. Those leaves are like 6 inches long.

And we are aware that we need to get rid of the bindweed. What can we do about it? Chemicals?