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Plant grown from a mystery tuber -I'd?

27 replies

MerylSqueak · 06/04/2024 15:29

I'm reinvigorating my garden bit by bit after we moved here 4 years ago. In the bit I was doing the autumn before last i found a tuber and replanted it in a rough patch to see what it would do. Last year it just did what you see here. No flowers.

I'm now digging out the rough patch and wondering if it's worth keeping. Plant id app just come up with any Plant that has a sword shape leaf.

Thank you.

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CheckeredAliceBand · 06/04/2024 15:46

I don't know what it is but I think it's too early in the year to decide it isn't going to flower and give up on it. I'd leave it til autumn and see what develops myself.

CheckeredAliceBand · 06/04/2024 15:46

Oh sorry - didn't read properly. I'm no help and please ignore my pp

cuckyplunt · 06/04/2024 15:47

Does it smell, looks garlicky.

isitbananatimealready · 06/04/2024 15:50

If the leaves are long and strappy, could it be a red hot poker? They take a while to settle in and flower.

MerylSqueak · 06/04/2024 15:54

No it's not wild garlic. It's leaves are more rubbery than that.

Yes, leaves are long and strappy. I hope it's not red hot poker. I don't like them.

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Vicliz24 · 06/04/2024 16:14

It could be Camassia or even an autumn crocus . Both have very similar leaves . A Camassia should have a flower spike now but autumn crocus the leaves come up early like that then disappears until the flower comes up in September.

Defiantlynot41 · 06/04/2024 16:52

Nerine or agapanthus?

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Plant grown from a mystery tuber -I'd?
AuditAngel · 06/04/2024 16:56

Could be an Iris?

MerylSqueak · 06/04/2024 17:19

Thank you for your suggestions. I'm not sure it is any of them though. It looks most like agapanthus but it's much bigger and glossing than any of mine.

I've zoomed in the picture with a Hardy geranium for scale. The clump is 18 inches or more.

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Vicliz24 · 06/04/2024 17:29

This is autumn crocus (colchicum) leaves very similar to.

Plant grown from a mystery tuber -I'd?
Alstreena · 06/04/2024 17:33

My money is on Autumn Crocus.
They are a bit boring in the spring and can attract slugs with their fleshy leaves, but are wonderful in autumn.

MerylSqueak · 06/04/2024 18:15

Well, I shall leave them in and see! They're really big with the leaves being at least 12 inches long. Is that right for autumn crocus?

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alreadyinuse100 · 06/04/2024 20:20

I immediately though they were bluebell leaves, but odd that they didn't flower last year.

MaverickBoon · 06/04/2024 20:22

Could it be monbretia?

MerylSqueak · 06/04/2024 23:03

Thank you for the suggestions but it's much bigger than both of those. I have both in the garden.

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CastlesinSpain · 07/04/2024 00:59

Crinium? They are huge.

ohfourfoxache · 07/04/2024 01:36

The leaves look a bit like spiderwort to me….

MerylSqueak · 07/04/2024 10:09

I thought you'd got it there with Crinum @CastlesinSpain but I've googled the tuber and it's the wrong shape. The tuber is much more like Monbretia.

Now you have me thinking I should get rid of it in case it's a lilly that could kill my cat.

I dont think it's spiderwort because the Leaves look too stiff in the images if that.

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FindingMeno · 07/04/2024 10:18

Day lily?

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 07/04/2024 10:21

Could it be a day lily?

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 07/04/2024 10:21

FindingMeno · 07/04/2024 10:18

Day lily?

Sorry, didn't see your post!

MereDintofPandiculation · 07/04/2024 15:52

Look at the leaf base, which seems to be flattened with each leaf folded into the previous. If so, than that would put it in the Iris family Iridaceae, and rule out most of the suggestions so far

Whataretalkingabout · 07/04/2024 17:22

I vote for Day Lilies too. Yellow or orange flowers that bloom all summer.

A keeper. ;)

MereDintofPandiculation · 07/04/2024 18:15

Whataretalkingabout · 07/04/2024 17:22

I vote for Day Lilies too. Yellow or orange flowers that bloom all summer.

A keeper. ;)

Not if it’s got the flattened leaf bases that it seemed to have in the second picture.

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