Interesting plant features/behaviours - eg. mulberry

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by estación seca

You can put a few in 6" / 15cm of soil in a 5 gallon / 21 liter bucket full of water. Same with the standard water chestnut you can buy in Chinatown.

We used to sell standard water chestnut as a "novelty" plant in the water garden store.

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Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

Were the worms eating the berries? Silkworms eat mulberry leaves (exclusively? Almost exclusively?).

Water Caltrops (Trapa). I saw them at the Asian market.

No idea. I just know they were tiny, and in the berries. Definitely not silkworm.

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Originally Posted by estación seca

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There are Passifloras from high and from low elevations. The high-elevation ones tend to have brilliant pink and red flowers, and will not survive high temperatures (regularly over 100 F / 38C.)

The purple ones grow readily here, and self-seed like mad. I have to beat them back by August. The fruit isn't good though.

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Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

So the tree I am talking about is a screw pine or corkscrew pine..I am getting a pic of my parents tree as it is amazing but the seed pods are wild!

I was gonna guess bitterbark, sandbox, or kapok tree. Rats!

[Bulbopedilum]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

I was gonna guess bitterbark, sandbox, or kapok tree. Rats!

Kapok trees get very big. They also have thorns all over them, and the seed flies everywhere. I imagine if you were to plant one in a residential area it would be a mess when it bears seeds

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Bulbopedilum

Kapok trees get very big. They also have thorns all over them, and the seed flies everywhere. I imagine if you were to plant one in a residential area it would be a mess when it bears seeds

Wow ...... that would bring tears for sure!!!!

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

So the tree I am talking about is a screw pine or corkscrew pine..I am getting a pic of my parents tree as it is amazing but the seed pods are wild!

Yes, those are amazing. Sawtooth leaves, spiral leaf production, huge stilt roots. Way too big to be a house plant even for the most homesick Floridian.

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I think only extreme southern Florida is warm enough for kapok, formerly in the Bombax family, now sunk into the mallow family Malvaceae. There are quite a few species of Ceiba and the one Pseudobombax, in this family, from Florida and Mexico far south into South America. Chorisia was sunk into Ceiba.

[Bulbopedilum]

Just a comment, but those stilt roots of the "screw pine" are indeed spectacular. Aren't they related to Pandan as well?

Speaking of stilt roots, something came to mind. I remember this one species of palm called the "walking palm", Socratea exorrhiza. It's thought that when a tree topples over, it can put itself back up with the original roots rotting away, so the tree will move a good distance every time it topples over.

[AnonYMouse]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

So the tree I am talking about is a screw pine or corkscrew pine..I am getting a pic of my parents tree as it is amazing but the seed pods are wild!

Boy was I way off!

Hey, wait! The fruit/seed pod doesn't look like a flail and it's not a pine!

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

Boy was I way off!

Hey, wait! The fruit/seed pod doesn't look like a flail and it's not a pine!

Is NOT a pine...that’s true, but c’mon, you don’t see a medieval weapon here??

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

Is NOT a pine...that’s true, but c’mon, you don’t see a medieval weapon here??

That's an unconcealed weapon DC. Just as illegal as a concealed weapon - concealed weapon in Australia that is heheh. I think in some parts of USA - concealed is allowed maybe heheheh.