Looks like some sort of shrub??

[mattmaxgia]

I bought a seed pack and don't know what kind of animal this is, please see picture. I am posting a picture of the leaf formation and it has grown to the approximate size of 5' in about 5 months.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=4 ... &safe=1&zw

[mtmickey]

Here is the link for instructions on how to post pictures. It looks like you were trying to post a picture that is in your email. You must host that picture in an online album, like flickr or picasaweb.

http://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3724

[mattmaxgia]

Thanks for the tip about photos.
So here is the plant in question, that has sprung up in our garden.


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[rainbowgardener]

Here's your pictures

[applestar]

That is a strange looking plant! Now, I might be wrong, but when I saw it, I thought "Huh. it looks like A HOUSEPLANT called 'Ming aralia'."

[rainbowgardener]

Possibly, but I'm not entirely convinced:



But you notice I didn't come up with any suggestions. I looked at all the usual flat needled suspects, cypress, cedar, yew etc and it didn't match any of them. So I'm thinking it is something exotic.

[!potatoes!]

flowers will help the ID immensely (looks like they're probably not too far off). to me it looks like something perennial and herbaceous, not a shrub. you think it's from a seed you planted?

I'm leaning towards something in the Apiaceae family. looks like you'll be getting umbel-type flowers, anyway,just from growth form.

[rainbowgardener]

Oh right... maybe just power of suggestion, I was thinking woody shrubs.

How about poison hemlock?



It would easily be as big as the plant pictured...

[WildcatNurseryman]

Rainbow is on it. Poison Hemlock it is, and as the name suggests all parts of the plant are poisonous. It's the plant Socrates was killed with. Paralizes your breathing.