Curious wild plant I can't identify !

[robg]

Can anyone help me with this plant I've been sent this photo of.  Crieff area.  No height given but that's a field of oats behind it.

I went through my book of wild plants and couldn't see anything like it.

Thanks

Rob Graham

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Rob, how are you?
 
Any chance of making pic a bit bigger...can't see clearly, I'm afraid ......

[Maggi Young]

Leaves look a bit like a polemonium though the flowers seem flat and tufted .... hmm!?? Not wild but an escapee, perhaps, which widens the possibilities considerably 

[ranunculus]

In a similar vein, could a kind member please remind me of the Latin name of this 'fruity' plant discovered in the woods near Vallonga?  Many thanks in anticipation of your welcome assistance.

[Brian Ellis]

Rob it has the look of Phacelia tanacetifolia to me from a distance!

[Gerdk]

Rob,
This is Phacelia tanacetifolia - commonly used for greene manuring

Cliff,
Chenopodium foliosum in German ' Erdbeerspinat ' (Strawberry spinach)

Gerd

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Gerd,
I got as far as remembering 'Ch...' !!   

[Gerdk]

Many thanks Gerd,
I got as far as remembering 'Ch...' !!  

We share the same problem - seems to be age-dependent 

I often don't remember a whole word - only some letters of it. Funny game - isn't it

Gerd

[ranunculus]

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We share the same problem - seems to be age-dependent 

I often don't remember a whole word - only some letters of it. Funny game - isn't it

Gerd
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I would have been more worried if you had signed your message ...

Ge..!   

Kind regards,
Cl...

[robg]

Many thanks for all the replies.  Sorry about the small picture but it's some time since I posted and 70kb was the limit then.  It wasn't till I had done the posting that I see it's now 350kb.

Cheers

Rob

[Maggi Young]

Many thanks for all the replies.  Sorry about the small picture but it's some time since I posted and 70kb was the limit then.  It wasn't till I had done the posting that I see it's now 350kb.

Cheers

Rob

Not to worry, Rob, seems there are plenty folks out there with better eyes than I!! Not that that is any surprise to me..... the ears are going too!  Have to check each morning to make sure correct number of hands and feet still attached...

[Paul T]

So, Maggi.... do you do that by feel?  If the eyes are going how can you be sure that you aren't seeing two hands and feet when there are only really a single one of each?    And even by feel... if your hand is missing but you can't see that it's gone, maybe you're feeling things that aren't there??    Then again, maybe life here is all the dream and we're actually only wake when we're asleep in this reality?

Oh dear, I think it must be getting late and time for me to go to bed. 

[robg]

You really should n't admit to these things, Maggi, it's just let's the likes of Paul here have fantasies !!

Out of interest does anyone know if this is the plant that beekeepers sometimes get farmers to plant as a 'catch' crop because of the large nectar yield.  Seemingly there is such a plant and bees will fly huge distances to crop it - normal flight range is 2 miles and the story I got was that the distinctive purple pollen was found in hives over 5 miles away.

Rob

[Maggi Young]

Yes, it is used for its attractiveness to bees... but it seems the resulting honey is very watery... but that is good for mixing with the very solid stuff from the rape crop....Ah, well, at  least the area of brain for "littleknown facts" is still working!!


Rob, the thought that young fella like Paul has fantasies even remotely linked to me is terrific boost to my day!! 

[Paul T]

Maggi,

    My wife is older than me as well, so perhaps I just have fantasies about older women?