| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| bingo |
Is this Fat Hen?Is this Fat Hen and so, is it worth eating. I've got loads growing in the garden.
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| tahir |
Dunno what it is but it's not fat hen |
| bingo |
O.K. I won't eat it then. |
| ziggy searchfield |
not got me glasses on but it looks like dogs mercury, suprizing if its that big already, as its a spring plant.
pour some water on the leaves, it should form little silvery droplets, like mercury. dont eat it. |
| hedgehogpie |
Nope def. not Fat hen. This is Fat Hen:
Has slightly downy ('mealy') looking leaves. |
| doctoral |
... looks like some kind of mint to me - has it ever been a herb garden? |
| Jamanda |
I think maybe annual mercury. See here http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/content/species.asp?351
It flowers through to October - so only really one month out. |
| cab |
Yep, a mercury. |