What's this, please?

[bazzaboy]

What is this please? Spotted in a wooded area, described to me as “like a sweetcorn growing tomatoes” - hmmm, not recommended for soup! Strangely familiar but can't find it on Google..... Not picked by me. There were 7 of them in a group.

[Martin H]

This is cuckoo-pint, lords-and-ladies, or lots of other names. Arum maculatum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum

[veggiechicken]

Wild Arum/Cuckoo pint/Lords and Ladies Arum maculatum, cuckoopint - THE POISON GARDEN website

Snap Martin

[bazzaboy]

Great, thank you. bb

[veggiechicken]

Ask us a hard one next time, bazza.

[bazzaboy]

Ask us a hard one next time, bazza.

lol, yes, it was very familiar to me coz I've even seen them in my own garden but I didn't know what they were called.... Google kept taking me to Amanita muscaria, a sought-after if dodgy hallucinogenic entity, evidently the favourite food of reindeer whose urine is also prized by desperate joy-seekers....!

My favourite Google solution was the attached pic! bb.

[veggiechicken]

I can see the similarity.