Once more: 18°00'33.64" N 76°46'50.73" W --- 2x ID

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  1. SvenLittkowski

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    Since I live in the Caribbean, here're many plants to discover. But not only that, sometimes I see plants on my beets and I am not sure if these are the plants i actually had sown out.

    Thus my newest request for identification. Thanks already now for your help, and my appreciation.

    I wonder if the first two photos (taken with one week in between) show a tobacco plant. I looked at photos of tobaccos, but I am just not very sure.
    The third photo could be maybe hopefully) a useful herb, or if i have bad luck something without value.
    What do you think?
     
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    Hi Sven sorry.. Th first one looks a bit like those plants you see on scrubby ground that grow up to look like tall sort of cabbages.. Darned if I can remember their name & the second will have to get my books out.. wll be back..:scratch:
     
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    Sven - I really have no idea what sorts of plant could be growing in Jamaica. It gets pretty cold up here and I don't even recognise the more tender plants that they grow in the south of this country. :D

    But your first two could be members of the tobacco family. I grow a couple - Nicotiana sylvestris and N. mutabilis, both of which have similar looking large leaves. Both are tender perennials, but often grown as annuals in this country. Though I am trying to overwinter some in a frost free area.

    I wouldn't rule them out as Nicotiana. But I certainly couldn't say for certain what they are.
     
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    Yes, the first two photos are confirmed as tobacco, thanks a lot. But the question is still, what plant is shown in photo #3? Who knows?
     
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    :scratch: Will look again at #3 then... :scratch:
     
  7. theplantman

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    difficult to say that young...looks a little like young spinach or leaf beat or chard....sown any of these or do their relations grow as weed sover there
     
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    Hi. I grow Capsicum in this big container, but a friend of mine who took care for some days has sown some herbs, but not knowing which. So I am ending up not knowing if this is a herb, or a weed.
     
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    Hi Sven,

    A weed is just a plant in the wrong place. 0)
     
  10. SvenLittkowski

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    Yes, true. The wrong place...
     
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