Plant ID

[Gcckoka]

I'll be using the thread quite often because I don't know many plant names in English

So this is called Qekhi in Georgian it is edible raw and also cooked you see the leafs it has a hollow body with little kind of fur around it , anyone know how it's called in english ?

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[Geoff Dann]

Looks like Giant Hogweed. Or fig....

 

[Toddy]

Hogweed of some variety….I found a French reference to the Georgian Qekhi or Dihqi being used as a pickle
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p03227911

I also found a really interesting site with masses of details of the uses of the family.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1541-4337.12222/full

and apparantly there's an awful lot of them endemic to Georgia
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Heracleum_(Georgia)

Sometimes our island flora's limited variety really shows !

M

 

[Gcckoka]

Looks like Giant Hogweed. Or fig....

Nope , nether of them
It doesn't have any flowers or anything , it grows the way you see it.

 

[Gcckoka]

Hogweed of some variety….I found a French reference to the Georgian Qekhi or Dihqi being used as a pickle
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p03227911

I also found a really interesting site with masses of details of the uses of the family.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1541-4337.12222/full

and apparantly there's an awful lot of them endemic to Georgia
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Heracleum_(Georgia)

Sometimes our island flora's limited variety really shows !

M

Hm it may be from that family , but it doesn't have flowers or any grows on one plant , they grow on a single leg and have one leaf

 

[forrestdweller]

do you know by chance the botanical name?!

 

[Joonsy]

''Bloodroot'' plant ? just a suggestion, it's shown on this site of native Georgian plants , scroll well down the page until you reach wildflower description then click on plant.

Link to Georgian plant site here http://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=B987-3