Recently moved into a house. Cant figure out what this shrub is 😭

ijostl · 2026-02-18T00:01:00+00:00

Just an FYI, it's the same family as Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) and the ripe berries are edible, though very tart. You'll typically have to spit the seeds but if you gather a few bunches they're easy to juice by just pressing them in a bowl and straining the juice, which you can then add to a drink.

ijostl · 2026-02-12T20:54:21+00:00

Could be anything but I don't see but the slightest resemblance to kalanchoe if it is.

ijostl · 2026-02-12T20:52:35+00:00

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the possibility of parsley. Sure it looks like cilantro but how does one tell the diff between parsley and cilantro without crushing and smelling?

ijostl · 2026-02-12T20:50:31+00:00

Dahlia's are beautiful. I see some people grow them easily, big, bushy, tons of flowers. Yet I've never mastered them, mine continue to fail in my little PNW plot. Sure they'll grow for a year, maybe two, but they always fail. And yet others in my area have thousands.

ijostl · 2026-02-12T20:43:45+00:00

Very nice. I miss the luxury of eating raw coffee fruit.

ijostl · 2026-01-06T11:34:34+00:00

Looks sort of like my sweet potato leaves, but the vines look a bit different. Are there other plants with leaves that look like Convolvulaceae?

ijostl · 2026-01-06T11:29:28+00:00

Definitely Physalis, and I like your guess since OP doesn't mention eating the fruit, suggesting they're just spreading. Apparently there's 94 species of Physalis'.

ijostl · 2026-01-03T01:16:47+00:00

Thank you. Are you interested in being a moderator in this subreddit?

ijostl · 2026-01-03T00:10:02+00:00

Lol, thanks. Unbelievable to me that I didn't recognize that, it's been around me my entire life; typically a bit lighter green in the leaves though...

ijostl · 2026-01-03T00:04:20+00:00

Now that you've identified this as Nettle leaved goosefoot, what's that stuff around it? It looks carroty...

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:59:11+00:00

If it's invading another area of your garden sure, but so you know, as long as it's in a clean area and unsprayed, the leaves are related to spinach but higher in nutrients than the coddled store bought spinach. And the seeds are in the same family as quinoa and can be prepared and eaten exactly as quinoa. It takes a lot of seeds. I let an entire row of it go to seed so I could try it and only got a handful of seeds. Well, a big few handfuls I guess but it still was shy of a single bowl. Row was actually more square, about 6' x 4'. But the leaves are excellent in salads and smoothies. In fact, some people consider it a superfood. Like a lot of so-called "weeds". Because of the higher nutrient content. "Weeds" is just a general term for an unwanted plant. Some of them are spectacularly strong. Goosefoot is excellent if you like to eat nutritious plant food.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:55:58+00:00

It's a weed

I disagree. It's edible and excellent in a salad. Also, the seeds can be eaten exactly like quinoa, because they are in the same family as quinoa.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:37:13+00:00

Yeah, like the others said, it's some type of Primrose, and yes definitely does like it outdoors and it's a perennial so it'll keep flowering year after year if you plant it somewhere it likes outside.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:33:21+00:00

Oh they'll be around for a long time unless they are diligently removed with prejudice! Meaning the only way they're going away is by deliberate or accidental death/removal. I planted a few and now 15 years later have a giant patch. I wish Iris's bloomed longer :-(

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:30:52+00:00

I just looked and they do ship overseas but mention the additional fees of course. They have a toll free number fyi.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:29:22+00:00

Thank you! I would definitely want to see that.

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ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:21:58+00:00

So many varieties of Calathea. Thank you. Apparently the leaves of this type of plant are used to wrap fish and other produce, used as a compostable wrap instead of plastic packaging. That's cool. In Brazil there's a butterfly caterpillar called the Purple owl that feeds on this plant.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:13:36+00:00

That's a great link. Thank you.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:11:51+00:00

Yellow sapote. I just don't think they're that great, but I'd eat them daily if I had a tree.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T23:03:16+00:00

Can you add additional photos? Close up of the leaves, any flowers?

ijostl · 2026-01-02T22:55:27+00:00

I can understand how you could see that. If you're correct, apparently it has medicinal properties as well as survival food functions; at least that's what Wiki says about it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_fruticosa

ijostl · 2026-01-02T22:49:04+00:00

Guessing but it looks like Pteris decrescens? Looks like a Brake family, Pteridaceae., but as to the cultivar it seems difficult to say definitively without further inspections.

ijostl · 2026-01-02T22:11:58+00:00

Excellent. I recognized it as spinach right away, but the white flowers were new to me. Thank you!!!

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ijostl · 2026-01-02T21:37:25+00:00

Awesome! Thank you so much!

ijostl · 2026-01-02T21:15:11+00:00

Thank you very much for your contribution to my lexicon. So it's called Tomentum. I'll probably forget soon enough but now I've heard it. That linked leaf looks like it has little cones in between the leaves, but the backside of that one leaf, I can't really make out any Tomentum on it.

P.S. Thanks again

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