Author Topic: A rare plant...at least for Mississippi (Read 1972 times)

Banjo picker · « **on:** June 02, 2011, 08:22:11 pm »

What could it be?

This might be as rare down here as the Lesser Mississippi Mongoose...

Banjo picker · « **Reply #1 on:** June 02, 2011, 09:12:18 pm »

It seems the transmigration of the images has cost some of the sharpness so here are a couple of other shots...

There is at least two of you out there that should know without even looking at the pictures...

Tim

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2011, 09:23:16 pm »

Cool.

Jasperfield · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2011, 10:57:12 pm »

Walnut? ...Salvadoran Dwarf Cucumber Tree?

WDH · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2011, 11:42:57 pm »

Looks like a Sasquatch standing beside some type of Aralia

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Texas Ranger · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2011, 12:22:22 am »

I tend to agree with Danny, but would like to see the stems and leaf nodes.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2011, 06:38:57 am »

You guys.

thecfarm · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2011, 07:05:52 am »

Butternut. Happy Birthday SwampDonkey

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2011, 10:02:30 am »

I notice a birthday cake on Donks reply, does that mean another year of experience is behind him, if so, have a happy.

two tired · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2011, 11:50:19 am »

if i recall right my dad callid that a shoemake , when it gets bigger it will have thorns on the bark. we would cut it to the length of a hoe and make hoehandles after it was peeled. the pith was verry soft. they are plenty of them growing in southwest louisiana.

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2011, 12:21:58 pm »

It looks to me that is not sweetgum.

WDH · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2011, 12:27:08 pm »

What you call shoemake is in the genus Rhus, the sumac family. I do not think that it is a sumac.

Tom, it is definitely a notsweetgum, Dangineferious notliquidambarstyracifluaia

So, as a result, it is not rare and quite common. There are notsweetgums everywhere you look around you

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two tired · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2011, 12:41:18 pm »

yup it aint sweetgum

two tired · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2011, 01:41:25 pm »

ok what is it you got my curiousity up

Banjo picker · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2011, 04:58:00 pm »

The cfarm has done got it...Its Butternut....Juglans cinerea L.....DogeyLoner sent me 25 or 30 a while back...I had several to come up---but they turned white and died...as far as I know this is the only one that made it...

If it survives to adult hood will it polinate itself or would it have to have another one to make some babies....? Is there any thing I should spray it with to keep it healthy...I made little wire baskets out of hardware cloth and sunk them into the ground and planted the nuts inside them to keep the squirles from getting the nut....they might not have bothered it since they have probably never seen one....should I fence it off to keep the deer from eating it down....?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2011, 05:11:42 pm »

Since you have a lot more deer than we do, it might be a good idea to fence it. I know hare will eat anything green up here. Moose will destroy them.

The tree will self pollinate, but it's always a plus to have others to cross with. If Dodgy picked the nuts from a loan isolated tree that may be the problem causing most seedlings to die. If it were from a grove or in close proximity to others, which is how they grow around here mostly, they would cross for better seed. There are walnut twig borers to consider and the canker. Don't know what to recommend there. I think the best approach is keep it weeded so it's getting full light to be healthier to begin with.

To my surprise, I found one just across the road and up on the edge of a maple grove, this winter. It's about the same size as the yard tree. It's probably 300 yards from mine.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #16 on:** June 03, 2011, 05:42:56 pm »

As for the sweetgum...the reason there is some sun light getting to the little fellow is...I cut the sweetgums for crossties a couple of years ago....I love sweetgum in the right enviroment...just not in the yard...And could you please tell me what Arilia is in laymens terms...And you guys know that there has never been a Sasquatch spotted in Mississippi...

Tim