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D_&_T
06-27-2009, 11:56 PM
We had a surprise come up with one of our pineapples this year after moving planter outside the spring! Can anyone help ID it, youngest took the photo with her camera.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18799 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13991)

The stem from under side is similar the leaf lettuce. It looks little darker in red with out flash.

musaboru
06-28-2009, 12:01 AM
Oak leaf lettuce?

Try tearing off a tiny bit to see if it secretes a white sap.

BIGDAWG69
06-28-2009, 12:21 AM
It definately looks like some sort of lettuce

Caloosamusa
06-28-2009, 08:29 AM
It is a lettuce. In my Agriculture and the Environment class at UF, we visited an Organic farm outside Gainesville. This is one of the expensive lettuce varieties they were producing. They taste wonderful!! :2239:

Bob
06-28-2009, 08:53 AM
Get it on the table before it bolts! Congrats, I get volunteer lettuce to the point of where I count on it.......of course that means I let some bolt the year before.:ha:

lorax
06-28-2009, 10:50 AM
Yeah, Red Oaktag Lettuce! I'd give anything to be able to grow that here, but the Anis (our tropical crow equivalents) don't let them get taller than 2" before they're eaten up.

D_&_T
06-28-2009, 12:40 PM
Thanks all found photo of red oak lettuce they look the same! Now to let it mature. Does it regrow after cutting it?

lorax
06-28-2009, 12:49 PM
Not in my experience, but if you harvest it by taking off just the mature outer leaves, and let the others mature, then you'll have it on the table for longer. Then, IMHO, let it bolt and volunteer.

D_&_T
06-28-2009, 02:02 PM
Thanks Beth, what I read after musaburo thought it was a oak leaf, said to harvest as head. It will wife and kids eating it, I might try bite or two iceberg lettuce makes me burp all day(or at least seems that way)as well as green peppers.

soundofthemusic1
06-26-2011, 12:55 PM
Hope this is the correct thread I can post my question in. :confused:

I wonder anyone can help me identify this mysterious, 5-feet tree I have. Picture 1 shows the truck of this unknown tree. Picture 2 and 3 show the leaves, and picture 4 shows the back of the leaves. All leaves are small, less than one inch in length.

Picture 1:
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43871&ppuser=5961><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43871&size=1 border=0></a>

Picture 2:
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43872&ppuser=5961><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43872&size=1 border=0></a>

Picture 3:
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43873&ppuser=5961><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43873&size=1 border=0></a>

Picture 4:
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43874&ppuser=5961><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43874&size=1 border=0></a>

The tree was a volunteer tree in my yard for 3-4 years, and it has been grown in a container in the last 1-2 years. One person told me it might be a wild cherry tree. I like to discard it if it is indeed a wild tree. So any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Jananas Bananas
06-26-2011, 01:13 PM
It reminds me of a wild plum (I'm no expert though Rae) - but they look similar. I have made jelly and jam from my wild plums and it is delicious!

Prunus (http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_130_fall_2009/trees/Prunus.html)

~JaNan

sunfish
06-26-2011, 01:20 PM
Wild Plum (Prunus americanus) (http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/am_plum.htm)

soundofthemusic1
06-26-2011, 02:13 PM
It reminds me of a wild plum (I'm no expert though Rae) - but they look similar. I have made jelly and jam from my wild plums and it is delicious!

Prunus (http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_130_fall_2009/trees/Prunus.html)

~JaNan

Thank you, JaNan. I totally understand that it is hard to tell without seeing the flower. I read the link you included. Does you wild plum leave has a pair of small glands on the petiole at directly below the blade as suggested in that link? The leave on my tree doesn't have those glands, so does it mean my tree is something else?

I have known you are great at art and craft work. Now I know you are also great with making jam and jelly.

I'll read more on wild plum trees. Your help is very much appreciated.

Rae

Jananas Bananas
06-26-2011, 02:33 PM
Rae, if my memory serves me, you have a lot of deer right? Just wanted to add that the deer in East Texas would eat the plums and they would come up everywhere, but the deer never killed them. :)

I actually wanted to give you another link with more pictures for comparison.

wild plum tree leaf - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS387US387&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=wild+plum+tree+leaf&oq=wild+plum+tree+leaf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=8172l8918l0l2l2l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0)

wild plum tree - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS387US387&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=wild+plum+tree&oq=wild+plum+tree&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=undefined&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=283864l283864l0l1l1l0l0l0l0l126l126l0.1l1)

~J

soundofthemusic1
06-26-2011, 02:51 PM
Wild Plum (Prunus americanus) (http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/am_plum.htm)

Thank you, Tony. Are you suggesting that my unknown tree could be a wild plum tree?

In the link you send, the description of the leave of a wild plum tree is this:
The bottom of each leaf is rounded, while its tip is somewhat elongated. The upper surface of each leaf is slightly wrinkled in appearance, rather than smooth. Do all wild plum trees have to have leaves like that? The leave on my tree does not have rounded bottom or wrinkled upper surface. Both top and bottom surfaces of my leaves are smooth. My leaves are, to me, more elongated at the tip and at the bottom. Since my digital camera is very old, it doesn't take good pictures. I wish I had better pictures to show you.

I still have to finish reading the entire article. At any rate, I wish to thank you for helping me.

sunfish
06-26-2011, 03:04 PM
Thank you, Tony. Are you suggesting that my unknown tree could be a wild plum tree?

In the link you send, the description of the leave of a wild plum tree is this:
Do all wild plum trees have to have leaves like that? The leave on my tree does not have rounded bottom or wrinkled upper surface. Both top and bottom surfaces of my leaves are smooth. My leaves are, to me, more elongated at the tip and at the bottom. Since my digital camera is very old, it doesn't take good pictures. I wish I had better pictures to show you.

I still have to finish reading the entire article. At any rate, I wish to thank you for helping me.

I don't know what it is,hadn't seen that JaNan had put a link on her first post.Looks pretty close to the Wild Plum

soundofthemusic1
06-26-2011, 03:53 PM
Rae, if my memory serves me, you have a lot of deer right? Just wanted to add that the deer in East Texas would eat the plums and they would come up everywhere, but the deer never killed them. :)

I actually wanted to give you another link with more pictures for comparison.

wild plum tree leaf - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS387US387&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=wild+plum+tree+leaf&oq=wild+plum+tree+leaf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=8172l8918l0l2l2l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0)

wild plum tree - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS387US387&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=wild+plum+tree&oq=wild+plum+tree&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=undefined&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=283864l283864l0l1l1l0l0l0l0l126l126l0.1l1)

~J

Yes, JaNan. Deer love my plants. Even the deer net dosen't stop them. Now I have a rabbit visit my yard everyday, too. So I really don't know who the culprit is that eats my hostas? It is alarming news that the deer would eat the plums. Maybe I should get rid of the tree.

And thank you for more links. I did see a photo that looks like my tree.