Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

I even found a website with a list of 'oddities' spawned from discarded birdseed. Went through every one but.... nothing

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

Its probably something really common!!Bugs me when I cannot find an answer to something..

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

Have a look at this - Ampelopsis brevipedunculata -- Porcelain vine

Some pictures seems a total no-no but some just could be. Don't suppose you've noticed any blue berries or you would have said

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

There are some very similar.........They are so many varietys of the same plants, its confusing...

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

This looks very like Angie's pics
It sounds like the type of plant you probably should grub out - a bit of a thug!

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

Now that does look like it DM, think you may have the answer...

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

As I posted in the Catsey thread it does look very much like the mystery plant, but there's no mention in any source I found about the enormous tubers.....????

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

Some references I found actually referred to Darwin doing work on this plant, where there is definite reference to a tuber

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

Now that eases my mind a bit, as I have been perhaps too focused on the tuber ... other than that it was a match! If I have time after the market tomorrow will walk down to the woods where I remember seeing some of them growing and poke about a bit if they are still there!

The berries are lovely, but it is an invasive plant.

Re: Strange Plant - can you help identify?

I am so glad I got it dug up! It is White Bryony (Bryonia dioica) - I have just had a reply from RHS and checked out images on Google and it's definitely what it was.

This is an extract from the RHS Control leaflet:

"White bryony (Bryonia dioica), is a scrambling
climber which can grow 3m (10ft) or more in a
season, developing several stems and
producing greenish flowers in the summer
followed by red fruits in the autumn. The
weight of the stems can break down smaller
shrubs and smother growth. White bryony
forms a tuberous rootstock, initially small, but
increasing over several years to form a very
large tuber, weighing perhaps several pounds."

Here's a link to some info - it's poisonous.