can anyone identify this please?

hannayo8

For a few years I have dug up this plant around a rose and fern. The leaves are alternate but I am really stuck. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. I have attached a photo of the plant. The stems are solid. There a lot of small fibrous roots then a big tap root.

fidgetbones

A sucker from a nearby tree?

hannayo8

I don't think so as we cut down the flowering cherry about 15 years ago and that was the nearest tree. Thank you for your suggestion though.

Dovefromabove

I agree with @fidgetbones ... those look like suckers from tree roots to me.  It could still be from the cherry, but if there are other trees in the area I would look suspiciously/accusingly  at them too ... tree roots can reach a long way ... 

hannayo8

Thank you. The whole area is jam-pack full of plants and stuff seeds all over the place, a lot of it brought in by the birds.

hannayo8

Well fidgetbones and Dovefromabove looks as if you are right. We went down the garden and found 2 ornamental cherries that are very similar to the leaf structure that I posted. They are about 25 metres and 35 metres from where I have been digging out the 'invader'. Thank you so much. I've just spent about an hour looking through weed sites and you were right all along.

Hostafan1

hannayo8 said:

Well fidgetbones and Dovefromabove looks as if you are right. We went down the garden and found 2 ornamental cherries that are very similar to the leaf structure that I posted. They are about 25 metres and 35 metres from where I have been digging out the 'invader'. Thank you so much. I've just spent about an hour looking through weed sites and you were right all along.

Sometimes real people are better than websites and Apps. Who'd have thought?? 

hannayo8

I humbly agree with you 

Hostafan1

  

Dovefromabove

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