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Old 03-11-2013, 12:42 AM   #21
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You are so right. Well done.
Here is a link:- http://cpa.msu.edu/beal/plantofweek/...s_20080630.pdf

I knew it wasn't a common weed suitable for tortoises. You've only to look at the leaves to see it could be poisonous.
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Old 03-11-2013, 10:21 AM   #22
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Got it! It is Nicandra physaloides. There is also a variegated form but the one you have seems to be green. Pretty, blue flowers. Has dark little pimples on the leaves.
Well done!
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Old 03-11-2013, 10:38 AM   #23
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Extremely well spotted, 10 out of 10 for that one.
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Thank you for getting to the bottom of this

I shall be warning the two places I got the seeds from as clearly one of them is putting seeds in their seed packs that are poisonous to tortoises even though they sell them as tortoise weeds
This plant grows no where else in my garden and the soil was only taken from my garden

Very very worrying, I guess a lesson to us all to check
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