M.Paola<p>This pretty plant, a seedling I spotted last autumn, was the gift of a blackbird. It's a pokeweed, Phytolacca acinosa to be precise, and together with another two is growing under a branch that a blackbird used to visit regularly when we first came. Fun fact, according to Wikipedia the plant is a hyperaccumulator for manganese. I have always wanted to grow a P. americana, also collected seed in Italy once to have a go, but this will do: fetching leaves! <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/inthegarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inthegarden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/weedlings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weedlings</span></a></p>