Mystery sticky seeds

[crazy_bull]

Picked up by the dogs today in a wood, like cleavers but bigger and pear shaped. Absolute sod to get out their fur, so has a Velcro like covering.

Any ideas on what it is?

C B

 

[solo]

They look to be part of the burdock family. Set seed in their second year of growth. Often found around badger sets.

 

[crazy_bull]

They look to be part of the burdock family. Set seed in their second year of growth. Often found around badger sets.

Not like our burdock which are big and spiky stick balls with smooth blacky brown seeds inside the larger stick outer.

But yes up there with regards to difficulty to remove from spaniel ears!!!!

 

[5020man]

Hi.
Looks like beech mast (nut).

5020 man.

 

[crazy_bull]

Hi.
Looks like beech mast (nut).

5020 man.

These are 5-6mm across.

C B

 

[5020man]

Hi.
Open one, if it contains 2/3 three cornered seeds it,s a beech nut.
If not I don,t know what it is.

5020 man.

 

[Pond digger]

Hi.
Open one, if it contains 2/3 three cornered seeds it,s a beech nut.
If not I don,t know what it is.

5020 man.

They ain’t no Beech nut.

 

[Bald Rick]

Triffid seeds

 

[primmiemoo]

Pirri-pirri bur?
They're escapes that come from New Zealand specimens.

If not Burdock (most likely one of the Burdocks) or those, then Wood Avens? Their burs stick.

 

[crazy_bull]

Pirri-pirri bur?
They're escapes that come from New Zealand specimens.

If not Burdock (most likely one of the Burdocks) or those, then Wood Avens? Their burs stick.

Nope none of those......

I think it might be 'Hounds tongue'

C B

 

[primmiemoo]

Nope none of those......

I think it might be 'Hounds tongue'

C B

Ooh. My book says it should "smell strongly of mouse". Does it smell of mouse, then?

 

[milkloss]

Curious so I did a google:
Folklore and Facts
The smell of the plant resembles dogs' urine so travellers would put some in their shoes to ward off dogs as they walked along.

The 16th century book entitled ‘the boke of secretes of Albertus Magnus of the vertues of Herbes, Stones and certaine beastes’, says that hound’s tongue attached to a dog’s neck where he cannot reach it with his mouth will lead the dog to turn in circles until he falls down dead. The author insists that ‘this has been proved in our tyme’.

Rabbits are supposed to be able to eat the plant without harm and, until myxomatosis reduced the rabbit population, they kept it in check. Since the liver damage it causes may be a long time in appearing it is by no means certain that it is completely harmless to rabbits.

In the 16th century, the roasted root were used as a suppository to cure haemorrhoids. The juice of the boiled leaves mixed with pigs’ grease, used as an ointment, prevents hair loss.

 

[crazy_bull]

Ooh. My book says it should "smell strongly of mouse". Does it smell of mouse, then?

Never saw the plant, just the horrid seeds, which now smell of wet spaniel! ?