Interesting plant features/behaviours - eg. mulberry

[DirtyCoconuts]

wait, what???!?!

i am trying to find the name of this plant in my parents front yard that grows these huge balls od seed - like a giant spiked flail and then- pop- the shoot these enormous 'corn' shaped seeds...this plant is MASSIVE though, could never be indoors

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

wait, what???!?!

i am trying to find the name of this plant in my parents front yard that grows these huge balls od seed - like a giant spiked flail and then- pop- the shoot these enormous 'corn' shaped seeds...this plant is MASSIVE though, could never be indoors

Post a photo in the Off Topic Totally forum.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Post a photo in the Off Topic Totally forum.

good idea- I'll have them send me a pic

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Post a photo in the Off Topic Totally forum.

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!

[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.

[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.