Patches
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It grows in hedgerows and Patches always makes a beeline for it. She managed to get some today as I got in close for the picture.
What's this plant?
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It grows in hedgerows and Patches always makes a beeline for it. She managed to get some today as I got in close for the picture.
Christmas_Kate
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It's, um, some kind of ash?? maybe?
I've seen it before, but cannot think what it's called. Do the leaves feel kind of furry?
I've seen it before, but cannot think what it's called. Do the leaves feel kind of furry?
Nudibranch
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It looks like hazel?
Patches
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No idea. I always wear gloves and just snatch it out of her mouth if she ever gets it.
Always grows out from the hedges so is quick growing compared to the actual hedge (as obviously the hedge is cut yearly). It's deciduous too as it's just starting to die off now.
Always grows out from the hedges so is quick growing compared to the actual hedge (as obviously the hedge is cut yearly). It's deciduous too as it's just starting to die off now.
Patches
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It looks like hazel?
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Whatever it is, is it poisonous?
It looks like hazel?
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Whatever it is, is it poisonous?
clipertyplop
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hazel?????
carthorse
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Is it a beech hedge?
Patches
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These leaves look thicker than the one in the hedges around here.
Whatever it is, I've never seen any flowers or berries on it.
Christmas_Kate
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Beech? I know we have it at the bottom of the field, and It may well be beech.
ETA: http://www.treesbypost.co.uk/index.cfm/m...agus-sylvatica)
ETA: http://www.treesbypost.co.uk/index.cfm/m...agus-sylvatica)
Eaglestone
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Beech???????????
piebaldsparkle
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I agree, it looks like Hazel, which isn't poisonous.
Patches
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No, common farmers hedgerows. Mixture of hawthorne, holly, privet etc. It's prevalent around here in all of the hedgerows to the fields but I get the impression it's not something that's purposefully planted.
arwenplusone
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Birch leaves? I think.
Nudibranch
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It defo looks like hazel, if you look you might see the hazel nuts sometimes, theyre green like small acorns with frilly "skirts". Though I can't remember when the nuts come out. Very edible.
Christmas_Kate
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can you not ask D????
zigzag
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I ride out with a vet and his horse eats it, so does mine if I'm not quick enough
Patches
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I did. He said he's a farmer not a horticulturist!
arwenplusone
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This is Birch.
ETS: actually I am talking cr*p - just re-looked at OP and I also think is Hazel.
Chex
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I'd guess at hazel too. Definitely not beech, birch or ash. It almost looks like elm, but don't think it is.
Mooch
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I always thought it was Hornbeam, part of the Birch family I think.
Could be totally wrong though!
Could be totally wrong though!
Patches
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Looking at the pics of hazel on the net, I don't think it is that. leaves are not thick or shiny enough for that.
It's almost like "fools raspberry" in texture, only bigger leaves. I've never seen nuts on the plants and she's been after eating them for two years on and off. Whatever it is, it dies back in Autumn. I said it was deciduous in an earlier post, but that's inaccurate. The whole "plant" dies back, not just sheds it's leaves.
It's almost like "fools raspberry" in texture, only bigger leaves. I've never seen nuts on the plants and she's been after eating them for two years on and off. Whatever it is, it dies back in Autumn. I said it was deciduous in an earlier post, but that's inaccurate. The whole "plant" dies back, not just sheds it's leaves.
Christmas_Kate
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Mooch
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If it totally dies back, it isn't Hornbeam, as the woody bits of that stay.
I bet Henryhorn will know.
I guess if it dies back it must be an annual of some sort.
We get loads in the hedges round here and the horses always eat the stuff. (they obvioulsy like it!)
I bet Henryhorn will know.
I guess if it dies back it must be an annual of some sort.
We get loads in the hedges round here and the horses always eat the stuff. (they obvioulsy like it!)
Patches
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Nope not that then. I'll take some more pics of it over the weekend. Hard to take decent pics when your horse is ploughing head first into it to prune it branch by branch!
Patches
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It's the only thing she goes for. She really tries to drag me into it. Doesn't help that it's always much more grown than the actual hedge. Hangs out tempting her as she passes.
She gets in a right strop when I take it off her too.
She gets in a right strop when I take it off her too.
Patches
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Hazel link. It is NOT hazel. It never has catkins on and the stems are not as thick as this and are always red.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl..._GB229%26sa%3DN
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl..._GB229%26sa%3DN
Pidge
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blackberry?
Patches
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Isn't blackberry brambles?
That's not brambles, nothing like brambles. As I've said in other replies, never seen any berries or nuts or even flowers on it.
That's not brambles, nothing like brambles. As I've said in other replies, never seen any berries or nuts or even flowers on it.
rabatsa
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Not poisonous, my two have been pruning it for years
Patches
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Not poisonous, my two have been pruning it for years
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I figured she'd be dead by now if it was. Just wish I knew what it was. She has an insatiable appetite for it and will physically pull me towards it when she spots it. It's like horsey candy!
Not poisonous, my two have been pruning it for years
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I figured she'd be dead by now if it was. Just wish I knew what it was. She has an insatiable appetite for it and will physically pull me towards it when she spots it. It's like horsey candy!