Is this a weed?

[Cherryblossom200]

Thanks 😊

It is a cucurbit probably a pumpkin or squash that has grown from seeds put into the compost.

I use the leafsnap app to.identify plants, its very goodd

Oh wow that's awesome! It most of self seeded.

So I should've it into compost then?

It could be a mallow.

Sorry I genuinely cannot work out what your question is.

i think mallow

leave it alone and see what type of fruit you get (although i would call them veg) could be a cucumber, zucchini, butternut or pumpkin or something different. fingers crossed the flowers get pollenated.

Looks to me like a mallow or hollyhock seedling.

My first thought was hollyhock.

Pumpkin

It has spikes and tendrils. Its a cucurbit!

Not that I can see! <<rushes to optician>>

It’s developing a very lobed leaf which doesn’t look like mallow. Lobed mallow leaves have the lobes roughly equal, whereas the central lobe on that leaf is much larger than the two beside it.

If you enlarge the photo, you can clearly see the prickles on the leaf stems - cucurbit

Up to you. You can leave it where it is, gently transplant it to somewhere where it has more space, plant it in a (large) container of compost, or declare it a weed and pull it up.

Likewise! I can see the spikes but not the tendril. Help, @AlisonDonut !

There’s something in front of the plant that I thought was random grass/greenery. Perhaps that’s the tendril? Impossible for me to see clearly on my phone!

Possibly a hollyhock

No, for the same reasons given above as to why it’s not a mallow

It's a cucurbit. OP, just so you know, self-seeding cucurbits are fairly often sterile, so it might not produce anything very exciting! (I learned this from bitter experience after buying some squash seedlings from a village stall - I tended them carefully and watched them develop into beautiful lush plants that did absolute bugger all. The woman I bought them from told me she'd just planted seeds from her home-grown squash and and labelled them as if they were the parent plant. She didn't know either.)

Ah fair enough! That's for everyone's help! I'm going to keep it, I'm intrigued to see if anything grows from it x

If it grows a fruit, don’t eat it. Weird, self pollinated strains of courgette and squash can make you ill

Oh yes, I see them now I have enlarged it.

Toxic squash syndrome. Very nasty.

You can test for it though - when you chop it up for cooking, lick a small piece before adding it to the dish. If it's a wrongun the bitterness is unmistakable.