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  1. What is this plant?

  2. 10/12/2015 2:47:55 p.m. Reception
    (Non-member from Western Bay of Plenty District)

    A thick stalk, grows like a weed in our maize crops and has little yellow flowers on some of the plants. Pointy leaves and a slightly fury stalk. Kind of reminds me of a bean stalk but is not. We need to know if this is going to be harmful to stock,
    HELP?

  3. 10/12/2015 5:29:22 p.m. Mike Thorsen

    Hi, looks like cultivated spinach to me. Are the flowers in a spike at the tips of branches? Try a small taste. it can persist in cultivated situation. if this then obviously not toxic.

  4. 11/12/2015 6:55:47 a.m. Mike Lusk

    I wonder about a plant called Miracle of Peru or 4 o'clock plant (Mirabalis jalapa). If it's that it should have a brown tuberous root and while parts are edible the seeds are poisonous, causing 'purging'. My reservation is that the flowers are quite large-say 2cm diam and can be of various colours, including different colours on the same plant. Once seeded it's very persistent

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