any ideas?

Posted by pete on July 10, 2011 at 8:38pm

looks suspicious to me..

pete July 10, 2011 at 11:34pm

Almost... Karen came back with it from a talk on herbs – it looked like fat hen to me – Laurence D Hills says: “An early warning that lime shortage is interfering with crop nutrition is a red-purple tint showing phosphorus lack in the growing tips of fat hen which is phosphorus-greedy”... but our one had a label on it saying “tree spinach” - 8 foot! Looked it up and it's Chenopodium giganteum (fat hen is C. album) it's native to India and is supposed to taste like chard or spinach with a hint of asparagus when cooked (we'll see... maybe)
Dave Candy July 10, 2011 at 10:08pm

Agreed, a nice strong healthy Fat Hen (Dung weed) plant.
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Phil Voice July 10, 2011 at 9:57pm

I've not seen this before but my immediate thought was how similar leaves , especially cluster of pink ones, look to dung weed.