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Is this ground elder?

anoushka.ferrarianoushka.ferrari Posts: 2
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Hello, 

I have had this growing in my compost area. Is it ground elder? I was told by our experienced gardeners that it isn't, but I want to be certain.

What could it be?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 21,333
    Have you put potato peelings in your compost bin? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 7,705
    Potato was my first thought too🙂
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 599
    It’s Enchanter’s Nightshade, Circaea lutetiana.  Not related to poisonous nightshades. It’s a pretty wild woodland plant. 
    East Anglia
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,333
    So they are not tiny potatoes growing up the stalk? Must grow from bulbs then? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 599
    It spreads by underground stolons. 
    East Anglia
  • anoushka.ferrarianoushka.ferrari Posts: 2
    thank you all.

    I do have potatoes growing in my compost bin as well. I shamefully have to throw too many of them away.

    It was the white roots that worried me. But it appears to be not overly invasive.
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