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Can anyone identify this plant?

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IamEarthymama · 26/09/2020 15:41

I planted this cutting donated during a garden open day last year.
I don't know who kindly gave it to our community centre garden and asking on social media has produced no results.
Does anyone recognise it?

It's really lovely, the leaves are gorgeous.

We try to label all our plants snd I would love to include this beauty. 🌱🌱🌱

Can anyone identify this plant?
Can anyone identify this plant?
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timtam23 · 27/09/2020 00:21

I had to look it up but PlantNet is identifying it as Macleaya cordata (Five-seed plume poppy). Or apparently Macleaya microcarpa is similar leaves, pinker flowers so it could be that?

MrsShelton · 27/09/2020 00:55

I’m thinking Heuchera

There’s lots of varieties, I’ve got two and they flower like that too

IamEarthymama · 27/09/2020 04:35

Thank you both for replying.
tintam23 that's it!!

It's so lovely, the leaves are gorgeous.
Apparently it's easy to divide so I hope to share the beauty if we can ever have another open day

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MereDintofPandiculation · 27/09/2020 08:27

It's Macleaya. Heuchera is a much smaller plant, and the flower stalks on Heuchera are all from the centre of the plant, not at intervals down the stalk like that.

It's a member of the poppy family - makes sense if you think of the leaves on a horned poppy or an opium poppy which have the same texture (although not shape)

MereDintofPandiculation · 27/09/2020 08:28

I knew what it was as soon as you said "It's really lovely, the leaves are gorgeous" - it had the same impact on me when I first saw it.

McWeedie · 27/09/2020 08:56

Yes its Macleaya. Be careful, it reproduces by sending suckers out, before you know it you will have quite a few plants.

I speak from experience. It took me quite some time to clear my garden, they kept popping up everywhere!

timtam23 · 27/09/2020 09:19

@IamEarthyMama no problem...I can highly recommend the PlantNet app for identifying mystery plants from a photo, I've managed to ID quite a few recently. There are other similar apps too.

MereDintofPandiculation · 27/09/2020 09:56

I can highly recommend the PlantNet app for identifying mystery plants from a photo, I've managed to ID quite a few recently. There are other similar apps too. The trouble with plant apps is that they're simply matching patterns of colour, basically doing the same as you do when through pages of google images. They have no botanical knowledge, so they can't say "wait a minute, I'm trying to identify a creeper and this picture is of a shrub" or "this picture is of a tiny rock plant", or "this plant doesn't grow in the UK, not even in gardens". And they don't even know they might have got it wrong so they give you each id with an air of certainty.

In other words, often they will get it right, but when they get it wrong, they can get it wrong very badly, and you won't know.

IamEarthymama · 27/09/2020 14:40

I had an app and it didn't believe in this lovely plant at all!

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