Okay.
Here's a pic of it. Go here.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y71/ltc4788/weird_plant.jpg
Yeah.. It started out as green, but then turned black in about 1-2 days.
Is it poisonous? A plant? A weed?
Should I keep it? get rid of it?
If you don't know, do you know any websites that can give me info?
Please Help if you can!
2006-09-09 10:29:28 · 10 answers · asked by Candie™ 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
This is velvetleaf, it is generally considered and invasive weed. You should probably get rid of it.
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2016-11-25 22:32:50 · answer #2 · answered by koons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a Poppy!
The plant is an erect, herbaceous annual, varying much in the colourof its flowers, as well as in the shape of the fruit and colour of the seeds. All parts of the plant, but particularly the walls of the capsules, or seed-vessels, contain a system of laticiferous vessels, filled with a white latex.
The flowers vary in colour from pure white to reddish purple. In the wild plant, they are pale lilac with a purple spot at the base of each petal. In England, mostly in Lincolnshire, a variety with pale flowers and whitish seeds is cultivated medicinally for the sake of the capsules. Belgium has usually supplied a proportion of the Poppy Heads used in this country, though those used for fomentations are mostly of home growth.
The capsules vary much in shape and size. They are usually hemispherical, but depressed at the top, where the many-rayed stigma occupies the centre; they have a swollen ring below where the capsule joins the stalk. Some varieties are ovoid, others again depressed both at summit and base. The small kidney-shaped seeds, minute and very numerous, are attached to lateral projections from the inner walls of the capsule and vary in colour from whitish to slate. The heads are of a pale glaucous green when young. As they mature and ripen they change to a yellowish brown, and are then cut from the stem if the dried poppy heads are required.
Opium is extracted from the poppy heads before they have ripened, and from Poppies grown in the East, those grown in Europe yielding but little of the drug. When the petals have fallen from the flowers, incisions are made in the wall of the unripe capsules, care being taken not to penetrate to the interior. The exuded juice, partially dried, is collected by scraping - the scrapings being formed eventually into cakes, which are wrapped in poppy leaves or paper and further dried in the sun, the white milky juice darkening during the drying.
The first poppies cultivated in this country for the purpose of extracting opium were grown by Mr. John Ball, of Williton, in 1794, but the production of opium has not become a home industry, as was expected at the time. The cultivation of the Opium Poppy has also been experimentally carried out in France and Germany, but the expense of the necessary labour and land has been too great to render it profitable. The British Pharmacopoeia directs that opium, when used officially, must be obtained from Asia Minor. A certain amount is cultivated in Macedonia and exported from Salonica, and much of that cultivated in Persia is also sent to European markets. Chinese Opium is entirely consumed in the country and is not exported.
2006-09-09 12:49:27 · answer #3 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wow. How weird! I'm unfamiliar with it so you must live in a warmer climate than I do.
It is NOT a sunflower and NOT any kind of poppy!
The advice to consult your extension service is best. They have plant experts (paid for by your tax dollars) who can help.
2006-09-10 03:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an awesome looking plant, or weed. Never seen anything like it. Wish I could help though.
2006-09-09 10:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by dizzyd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't recognise it, but it looks very impressive! Could you take a bit of it to a garden centre or a park gardener for identification if no one on here knows what it is? My dad sent a bit of plant to a gardening magazine for identification once, and they told him what it was.
2006-09-09 10:37:23 · answer #6 · answered by mad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get in touch with your county extention office. This is part of the department of Agriculture,they are in every county,their service is free,their data base is huge.And usually they are very nice people doing what they love.
2006-09-09 10:50:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
its a poppy and yes it poisonus if eaten
you should keep it if you like it
when it dies dry the head and pop it open millions of seeds will come out put them it pots and enjoy
2006-09-09 10:36:37 · answer #8 · answered by Dee 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it a flower that has bloomed out it doesn't matter what you like it keep i believe it s a sun flower.
2006-09-09 10:34:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
theyre ugly. kick em!
2006-09-09 10:35:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋