Can anyone identify this plant?

[Sue]

I have been waiting hopefully for it to flower, but so far this year it hasn't, and I just can't remember what it is :(

It has woody stems at the base and is planted in a fairly small pot.

I have tried to use plant ID sites without success.

I know there are some plant wizards on here so I am hoping that one of you may know what it is, thanks!

ETA: The colour showing through the leaves is from other plants, not this one, which has no flowers or buds on it.

[frump]

Angelica?

[KidKruger]

It is not marijuana.

[Chick]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> It is not marijuana.

How do you know???

[KidKruger]

Gardening experience.

[red devil]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> It is not marijuana.

That would explain a lot... :)

[maxxi]

Some kind of Aralia?

[Sue]

Thanks all, don't think it's any of those - definitely not marijuana :)

I have never grown Angelica and wouldn't put it in a pot, and I've just looked up images for Aralia and it doesn't seem to be that.

Tried putting the photos into Google image, but it just came up with a load of totally different plants.

I guess I am just going to have to hope that at some point it will flower ...... or else join the RHS and ask them, but I can't afford the membership these days :(

[KidKruger]

possibility of smoking it ?

[uncleglen]

It looks like Melianthus major to me -the honey bush.It should have red flower spikes at some point.

[ianr]

Knowing next to nothing about plants, I tried starting from first principles, by trying to find a plant leaf key, but none of them led to a good hit. The nearest I've found, I can't remember how now, is possibly some variety of Astilbe. So can I have 50p each way on that please.

[Annette Curtain]

Does it grow on its side

Weird

[charliecharlie]

I agree, think it could be Melianthus

and if so you could get a fabulous flower like this!!!

xxCC

[charliecharlie]

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?20,file=57403

[Sue]

Hi all and thanks!

I don't think I've ever grown Melianthus in a pot, at least not deliberately, just as a half hardy annual in a border, and never in my present garden as it doesn't get enough sun.

Plus this one has somehow survived the winter.

However I agree that Melianthus seems to be the closest fit so far. Would be great if it flowered!

[uncleglen]

I've got a plant in a pot that I haven't had a chance to put in yet and it was supposed to flower and it hasn't. Maybe they don't flower if they are in pots.

[Sue]

Being in a pot would normally make no difference provided the pot size was appropriate and the plant had its preferred conditions eg sun or shade, wet or dry soil.

I think the flowering season of many plants has got very messed up this year because of the weird weather.

[Dulwichmudlark]

That's cannabis buy the look of it indica verityn small pot stopping it from growing fall classic leafs

[Sue]

I can assure you that it is not cannabis.

The leaves are completely different, they do not smell of cannabis when crushed, and I do not grow cannabis, in a pot or otherwise.

[DulwichFox]

I tried marijuana once. But I did not inhale.

William J. Clinton

[uncleglen]

It is not cannabis- my gran taught me all I know about plants and she had cannabis plants and that is not it. It might have serrated leaves but it is not marijuana. Look at Google images and compare.