Mystery eight-foot tall plant in Wolverhampton garden identified as walking stick cabbage
A mystery 'jolly green giant' plant that has baffled a keen Wolverhampton gardener may have been identified - as a walking stick cabbage.
Rocco Colabella, 77, grew the eight-foot high plant in allotment in Pendeford but has no clue what it is.
Now Express & Star reader Julie Bloomer, 46, from Ashmore Park, believes she has put a name to the plant.
She said: "As soon as I saw it I thought 'oh look a walking stick cabbage!' I am a keen gardener and like to grow a lot of unusual things.
"I first saw this plant three years ago at my local garden centre, it can grow up to eight feet and you can cut the stem out, varnish it, and use it as a walking stick."
Mr Colabella, a retired Goodyear worker, has been eating the plant's leaves since they first began to sprout three years ago.
