Interesting plant features/behaviours - eg. mulberry

[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??

[WaterWitchin]

No, different plant DC... look here Madagascar Jewel Question

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Seeds 1/8 or less the size of an uncracked peppercorn.

[Leafmite]

Passiflora flowers. My family calls them the UFO plants.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

Passiflora flowers. My family calls them the UFO plants.

Awesome! I just took a look online for images ----- amazing flowers!

[AnonYMouse]

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

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

[estación seca]

Be careful with Trapa. They can become a serious invasive pest in many North American climates.

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Originally Posted by SouthPark

Awesome! I just took a look online for images ----- amazing flowers!

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.)