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Can anyone identify this?
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Posted by drahme (My Page) on Sat, Jun 23, 07 at 21:36
| Hi, a couple years ago about the same time some Red Hot Pokers showed up in my wildflower bed without invitation, another plant showed up as well. I have forgotten if it started out as a tree and I hacked it off and it ended up looking like a shrub, or what.
I have taken pics, samples to about half a dozen different places, including the master gardener from Washington and have yet to determine if this is a weed, or it needs transplanting.
It's leaves remind me somewhat of an oak leaf. The leaves are shiney and have seven lobes, if you count the lower two.
It will grow about five feet in a season with no special care.
I was going to hack it out but my wife suggested that since it grows so well, the option might be a bit premature.
My master gardener friend thinks it is a species of oak particluar to this area, which she would be unfamiliar with.
If anyone could lend a hand in identifying this, I would
appreciate it.
This is the link to the photos:
http://ddgnevada.com/plants/mystery/mystery.html
Thanks, Dan |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery Bush
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Can anyone identify this?
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| I think it looks sort of like Acer tridentatum. If it is Acer tridentatum, it should turn nice yellow orange or red colors in the fall. Lisa |
RE: Can anyone identify this?
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Hi, thanks for the reply. I couldn't find any references to
Acer tridentatum doing searches. Perhaps a typo? In the fall, the leaves stay bright green until the first hard frost whereupon they die and drop off. Sort of like a contorted filbert I have that is supposed to produce catkins later on in the year but doesn't. I used a couple of those online plant ID keys and the closest I came was a red oak, but that is not right either. The leaves don't wilt during hot, windy days - they stay bright green. I've never seen any leaf scorch. Kind of makes me think weed or something that is going to turn out really noxious one of these days. |
RE: Can anyone identify this?
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| A. tridentatum is now called A. buergerianum, but that isn't what you have anyways. There is an Acer that MAY be it, considering its toughness and the leaf shape: Acer ginnala (Amur maple). It looks a lot more like what's in your picture. |
RE: Can anyone identify this?
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| Hi, the latest on this is that I went to the Coorperative Extension in Reno and they tentatively identified it as Morus Alba, a White Mulberry. What was throwing everyone was the leaves. Apparently, Mulberries can have several different leaf types on the same tree, and I was posting the biggest ones. They will be getting back to me later on in the week (hopefully). If it is a tree that actually grows here, it is going to have to be transplanted out of the wild flower bed and into one of the Indian burial ground spots. Death sentence, maybe.........but Walmart does have a lot of amendments on sale. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery Plant
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