Month later pictures added! I recognise it but no idea what its called and Plantnet didn’t find it

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45800580

Little sprout

Coming up in my garden right next to some forest (primarily oak mixed with beech, birch, maple) in southwest Sweden. Last year i dug the area out and removed (most) roots. Not much came up but this little sprout. I suppose it could be roots reaching in from the adjacent forest.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    7·
    27 days ago

    I don’t think this is ginger, unlike the bot identified. Ginger grows in hotter climates, and the sprouts are different:

    • Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      Yea the colours aren’t there either. It did prompt me to pot some ginger in my kitchen tho :)

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

        It did prompt me to pot some ginger in my kitchen tho :)

        Warning: it requires a lot of Sun, a lot of water, and it has a nasty tendency to die in the cold, even in subtropical areas. And you probably won’t be able to harvest a lot of ginger out of it.

        But hey, it’s fun, and people will ask you “what’s this plant?” :)

  • Bot@mander.xyzBEnglish
    3·
    27 days ago

    Automatic identification via PlantNet summary

    Most likely match: Zingiber officinale Roscoe

    Common name Scientific name Likeliness
    Ginger Zingiber officinale 13.54 %
    / Tillandsia tricolor 6.35 %
    Eastern white pine Pinus strobus 2.47 %
    / Tillandsia rodrigueziana 1.67 %
    African Mahogany Entandrophragma angolense 1.16 %

    Beep, boop

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  • kunegis@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    26 days ago

    There must be a not quite small underground structure to the plant, like a tuber, or corm, or something similar. If you can take it out of the soil, you may have better chances at identification.

    • Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      Yea, I’m very tempted to dig it out since I probably don’t want it anyway. Might do that tomorrow.

    • Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      Doubtful, not at all common around here so I would be very surprised if it had flown several kilometres to land in my garden bed and nowhere else.