This grey/green leafed plant has been in my garden since I bought the seeds from my previous home and garden ,pre1981 !! A you see the colour is grey/green and the stem has a white sap in its stem - It has little flowers or no significance they ripen into little seed capsule - on ripening these will burst and expel the seeds like shots out of a gun ! and germinate easily wherever they land . Due to this nature I have an annual supply of the plant . which I grow or get rid of - as the need may be ! I called it my pepper plant -- which obviously is not the only resemblance being is that the seeds look rather like pepper corns !
Thanks to the ladies who have identified for me -- full title Euphorbia lathyris -- Gopher plant
No idea Beryl, but it looks very interesting. Have you tried Plantsnap, a free app which you can download to your phone? You take a photo of the plant , upload it and the app will send you what they think it is.
Lovely capture Beryl I have just Googled Spurge plant which I thought it might be and it is called Mole plant and also a Euphorbia Lathyris Spurge Gopher plant
@carole_sandford@wendyfrost@julzmaioro Thank you ladies , I should have known as I have other species of Euphorbia in the garden and found similarities , in them ! So googled it , its full title being - Euphorbia Lathyris Spruce - gopher plant . ( Well done Wendy , top points to you today !! ) Yes Julie - it pops up everywhere - but is easy to pull up !
By now this plant has been identified. What a team! It's certainly an intriguing looking plant with those spiky leaves. Amazing that these plants (and others) all started from seeds pre-1981. There is something humbling in this knowledge, isn't there?
I had no idea so glad you have your answer Beryl.