Author Topic: Let's play "Stump the Donkey". (Read 5681 times)

DanG · « **on:** March 26, 2005, 11:15:16 pm »

OK SwampDonkey, you're pretty good at looking stuff up. What would you say this juvenile tree is. Keep in mind that it is just putting on it's spring growth, with lots of new leaves and shoots.

This tree is just now making a comeback in my area, after being all but wiped out by a severe freeze in 1963. I have fond memories of climbing them when I was a child. Think medicinal.

Norm · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2005, 07:58:22 am »

Camphor?

DanG · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2005, 08:28:25 am »

Camphor it is, for shore!

I musta made that too easy.

Not to worry though, there's more.

Not to make all you Northern types jealous, but all of these were taken in my yard, yesterday.

Tom · « **Reply #3 on:** March 27, 2005, 10:29:30 am »

In 1973 I was heating with wood and had no idea what camphor was. The boys and I found a huge camphor log in the woods that someone had discarded. I lit into it with my chainsaw and made firewood out of it. I noticed a distint odor right away.

Me and the boys stacked that stuff in the carport and when I returned from work the following mondy the whole neighborhood smelled like Vicks Vapor rub. We burned it anyway.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2005, 05:32:31 pm »

I like this thread and especially the title. 'Stump the Donkey'

Ah another introduced plant from Asia. The early shoots give away the flower color, like the roses do. They also put camphor oil in the original Noxema.

I'm not familiar with the tree Dang, so would'a been awhile to ID. My North American medicinal plant book doesn't list it.

DanG · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2005, 11:28:05 pm »

Aaaahhh, there you are, SD.

The second pic is not Camphor, but a totally different plant. I have a string of'em all ready for you. When one is figured out, I'll post another.

Y'all feel free to join in. Figure one out or post one of your own. I'd like to keep it to one plant at a time, though, if we can.

Roxie · « **Reply #6 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:29:09 am »

Flowering plum?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:24:53 am »

Dang,

My previous post wasn't a guess for the second post.

Now let me take a stab at it here.....

Looks like cherry to me, or something in the Prunus genus. Long slender stem with flowers on a short shoot.

sprucebunny · « **Reply #8 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:53:50 am »

I'd guess crabapple but they probly don't grow down there.

asy · « **Reply #9 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:55:46 am »

Must say, I agree with the Plum guesses.

I'd go one further and guess Angelina plum, since it has a red calyx...

Go on, tell us!

asy

tnlogger · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2005, 11:09:31 am »

sorta looks like dogwood to me as they are in bloom. but i cant see to good so i might be wrong

DanG · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:33:26 pm »

Yep tnlogger......you're wrong.

Sorry, I just couldn't hep myself.

It ain't a plum, either. I had to cut down the plum, 'cause it will try to cross-pollinate with this one, making the [??] very small.

Roxie · « **Reply #12 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:46:18 pm »

Do you have PEACH trees blooming already!

DanG · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2005, 01:17:43 pm »

Yuppers, we do. And that's what that is!

Yer a winner! Too bad there ain't no prizes.

Next one is easy. Male and female blooms on the same branch.

Riles · « **Reply #14 on:** March 29, 2005, 02:19:47 pm »

Loblolly Bay.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #15 on:** March 29, 2005, 03:32:11 pm »

Virginia Stewartia Stewartia malacodendron

asy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2005, 05:41:37 pm »

Gosh, that looks rather like a cecil brunner rose...

asy

Riles · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2005, 06:33:00 pm »

Oooh, that's sneaky. I just assumed it was a tree, even though I thought the leaves looked like roses. Now that you mention it, I can see the thorns.

Roxie · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2005, 07:15:15 pm »

Blackberry

DanG · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:20:41 pm »

Awww c'mon now. SD you're gonna hafta translate that for me.

The rest of you are on the trail. This thing is growing, unchecked in the thicket to the south of my shop. This particular branch is hanging over the old truck that serves as a depository for my scrap iron. The upper reaches of it are probably 60 feet up in the pines. I thought somebody would get this one in a matter of minutes.

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