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.
Asparagus or something related to it maybe?
I would be delightfully surprised if asparagus showed up but its doubtful since this was just gravel and shrubbery two years ago. It started to open its top leafs so will take new photos tomorrow. Hopefully this mystery can be solved soon.
Did you figure out what it was?
Not yet! Its been growing like crazy
The Mysterious Stranger
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.
Yea, I’m very tempted to dig it out since I probably don’t want it anyway. Might do that tomorrow.
Bamboo?
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.
Hosta?
So far the most delightful suggestion! Time will have to tell.
I don’t think this is ginger, unlike the bot identified. Ginger grows in hotter climates, and the sprouts are different:
Yea the colours aren’t there either. It did prompt me to pot some ginger in my kitchen tho :)
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?” :)
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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