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nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 9:27 pm Post subject: Identifying herbs
I have one or two unidentified herbs growing on my allotment! Can anyone point me in the direction of a good website, with lots of piccys, to help me identify them? Thanks

jema
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: Identifying herbs

nettie wrote:

I have one or two unidentified herbs growing on my allotment! Can anyone point me in the direction of a good website, with lots of piccys, to help me identify them?

Thanks

Sounds like quite a good idea for a web site!

sean
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:11 pm Post subject:
How do you know that they're herbs if you don't know what they are?

jema
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:12 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

How do you know that they're herbs if you don't know what they are?

I wondered that, but taste can I assume tell you ?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:15 pm Post subject:
I use this site when identifying wildflowers- tiscali.reference, good for wild plants, not sure about cultivated ones though.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:18 pm Post subject:
Found a site with over 300 pics of herbs on it when i did a google search for my unidentified herb but dont know how to put the web link in without getting a pen and paper and copying it down, tried putting it in favorites and then pasting it to a post but it didnt work but the site was something like https://altnatural.com/gallery/index.html

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:51 pm Post subject:
Thanks all, i know they're herbs cos they're in the herb patch with all the other herbs! They smell lovely, and I know most common herbs, but am at a loss with these. Will check out Pilsbury's link now!

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:53 pm Post subject:
I can't get it to work

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
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Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 12:25 am Post subject:

Try this for many types of reference
https://www.martindalecenter.com/
for plant ID click on 'Botany' under Biosci/Biotech
there may be some pictorial ID amongst the many links, but the one I looked at were forms to fill in with identifying charachteristics, e.g. leafe position, shape, size etc.

To find out about a plant once identified, here the online version of Mrs. Grieve's Modern Herbal
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html

And this one from another thread
https://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/SHORTCUT.HTM
with this one there are photos, but you have to go through the taxonomy, sometimes trial and error, if you don't know what group to look at.
This is the home page
https://www.bioimages.org.uk/
and a link to the Flora of Europe from above site
https://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 7:53 am Post subject:
Do you have a digital camera? Put the pictures on here and post a link to the page on appropriate newsgroups, and you're likely to be laughing.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:19 am Post subject:
The biggest herb resource I've seen is Gernot Katzner's website: https://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/spice_welcome.html

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 5:03 pm Post subject:
Thanks for all the info folks. Will try and get some pictures on the weekend.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 6:42 pm Post subject:
If they're that unusual you'd probably better get started on cuttings as well, Nettie, have you seen what happened to Cab and his horseradish

nettie

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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:26 pm Post subject:
No I haven't, I must have missed it! Did it involve pain and eyes watering?

Bugs

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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:40 pm Post subject:
He put up a post saying how on earth do I get rid of this horseradish and everyone wants a bit . A very Downsizer solution to the problem, I thought.

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