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I have a plant growing in my front flower bed that looks like curly kale. Could it be kale.




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That's not Kale - don't eat it!

27 Apr, 2016

 

Agree with Bathgate not kale, no idea what it i though!

27 Apr, 2016

 

I think it might be Ragwort, Senecio jacobaea. It's very variable and doesn't always look as it should. I would dig it out.

27 Apr, 2016

 

I thought it might be Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) but difficult to judge the size. Tansy is a wild flower with clusters of dome shaped yellow flowers. A culinary herb and useful for wildlife, but does creep and not everyone likes the smell.

27 Apr, 2016

 

Looks alot like the plant I just had identified on this site a week ago. I thought it was parsnip and it was ID by the members as poison hemlock. When I dug it up I found out that it was, it had a very bad alkaloid odor to it.

27 Apr, 2016

 

I thought it was curly kale -looks very like what I grew last year. Please can somebody tell me what I've missed?
The ragwort that grows here is not as crinkly as the one in the pic, the leaves are more finely divided and it's a slightly more glaucous green than this but you can't rely
on the colour in photos. Bruised ragwort leaves smell unpleasant but then tansy leaves smell too. But surely tansy leaves are more feathery than these? Pick a bit of leaf and crush it thoroughly in your hand- kale will smell cabbagey. Trust your nose.

28 Apr, 2016

 

PS - just found a ragwort growing on the edge of the lawn - can see what you mean, but I'd still do the smell test.

28 Apr, 2016

 

Those leaves are too feathery for curly kale.

28 Apr, 2016

 

Sliv, please do crush a bit, smell it and let us know!

28 Apr, 2016

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