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Can anyone identify this? It’s growing in a neighbour’s garden. We think it’s something that was originally self seeded. But no idea what it is!

Looks like rhus/sumac. It's a tree but it suckers like mad.

agree sumac or Rhus

Sumac tree suckers - is there a larger tree near by?
They are virtually impossible to dig up, but will spread everywhere

Oh my God, that definitely looks like sumac. It suckers like crazy, and sends shoots far away and through shrubs , under fences.

It is supposedly very difficult to irradicate.

Yikes! I will tell my neighbour. Could it have been naturally seeded? The neighbour has only just moved in

I suspect there is either a tree elsewhere in her garden, or a neighbour's garden
Or there was one in her garden, recently cut down, and the shoots have been sent up by the roots that have been left behind - hence the abundance of new shoots.

We had this and it took ages to get rid. Every time we thought we has got it all another bit would pop up several feet away from where the original was. It has been 6 years since we dug it up and I still get kittle random bits appearing, I check every week ir so and manage to keep on top of it.

I had one but it died - don't think it liked our heavy clay soil 😥

Oh wow. I saw (three) sumac trees being planted on a Love Your Garden type TV programme and thought it looked lovely and was considering one for my new garden. I didn't realise it suckered like that 😱

I've just walked the dog around the neighbourhood and seen no sumac trees so if the seeds travelled they travelled a long way! I've advised neighbour to lop off seed heads when they apple (bc I don't want the problem!). And she's doing some googling to work up an eradication strategy.
Thanks all x

It's quite possible that the original tree was cut down, and that was what provoked the roots to produce all these suckers.

I don't think self-seeding is a major problem.