Ah Euphorbia! Thanks, I thought it looked a bit like a False Caper I had once and aparently it's related. I'm not sure how it got there, I guess aliens is one possibility lol.
Lol nut. Can you imagine the taste or rather the burn on the way down?!
Mow it certainly does as do most Euphorbias. I grew E. Wulfenii in my garden and when sat in the garden I could hear them exploding! Didn't mind tho. Easy to pull out where I didn't want them and plenty to share around
Ha I never knew that they exploded! With the false caper I had before, I was given it with the assurity that it was a true caper. As I picked one of the pods though, some white sap appeared which gave me doubt. I tested some on my tongue and it started to burn so I researched it and found it was toxic.
I think with this new one I'll probably move it to my 'wild' garden as I don't think I want exploding plants in my vegetable patch.
The sap is awful stuff. It is photosensitive and I got some on my gloves once, had hair in my face and used the back of my glove to push it away a few times. A few hours later I had blisters all over my cheeks like I had poured boiling water on my face!!!!!!!
I got some of the sap on my legs on a sunny day when I was a child - within a very little while I was very poorly indeed - my legs were all red and puffy and swollen and I felt very ill - I wasn't very old and can't remember what the treatment was, but I can remember the doctor visiting me
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Weed but quite a pretty one til it gets past its best. Its a Euphorbia lathyris.
I reckon aliens are distributing this one.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah Euphorbia! Thanks, I thought it looked a bit like a False Caper I had once and aparently it's related. I'm not sure how it got there, I guess aliens is one possibility lol.
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James
I think I've heard those called false capers. I don't think they're a substitute though
In the sticks near Peterborough
Had this mystery in my mums garden a few years back. If I remember rightly it throws its seeds everywhere if the pods burst.
Lol nut. Can you imagine the taste or rather the burn on the way down?!
Mow it certainly does as do most Euphorbias. I grew E. Wulfenii in my garden and when sat in the garden I could hear them exploding! Didn't mind tho. Easy to pull out where I didn't want them and plenty to share around
someone gave me some seed heads of a euphorbia and I put them in my shirt pocket. They were exploding all the way home. Odd sensation
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ha I never knew that they exploded! With the false caper I had before, I was given it with the assurity that it was a true caper. As I picked one of the pods though, some white sap appeared which gave me doubt. I tested some on my tongue and it started to burn so I researched it and found it was toxic.
I think with this new one I'll probably move it to my 'wild' garden as I don't think I want exploding plants in my vegetable patch.
Nut would have loved to have seen your expression
Guy was that friend or foe who gave it to you?!
The sap is awful stuff. It is photosensitive and I got some on my gloves once, had hair in my face and used the back of my glove to push it away a few times. A few hours later I had blisters all over my cheeks like I had poured boiling water on my face!!!!!!!
I got some of the sap on my legs on a sunny day when I was a child - within a very little while I was very poorly indeed - my legs were all red and puffy and swollen and I felt very ill - I wasn't very old and can't remember what the treatment was, but I can remember the doctor visiting me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.