OK, flora sleuths out there. Here's another unknown plant/weed. It was found in a suburban garden in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. This area experiences frosty days in winter and dry hot summers. Soil is fairly shallow and there is a clay pan near the surface.
This is the information sent with it:
"...grows to about 30cm. in about a month in spring and very quickly puts out conker-like pods that have hundreds of black seeds within. The plant has a very pungent smell.
Found a couple of plants in the garden here at no:60 when we first got here. Carefully lifted them and didn't get any seedlings last year."
So, does anyone recognise this one? You can see a couple of the seeds in the image.
I've really flipped! I went to the bookcase for my NZ plant and tree books - and then, of course, realised that I wasn't in NZ. HELP!!
ReplyDeleteYou have the most interesting plants! That almost looks like a big cocklebur here in the central U.S., but I don't know what it really is.
ReplyDeleteGB... Sorry, can't help. When we were traveling around on our last holiday, my daughter and I counted up - in something like 72 days, we slept in 52 different beds. I used to have to lie there a few minutes in the dark working out where I was or I'd walk into a wall.
ReplyDeleteBeau - NZ is a long thinnish country so we cover quite a few latitiudes. Between 47ºSouth and 34º south, actually. so we have quite a climate range.
That would be Datura
ReplyDeleteYes Butterfly! I do believe you are correct. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think, "Datura stramonium", commonly known in some other parts of the world as Jimson weed. Very, very toxic.