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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #40 on: April 19, 2010, 11:53:56 am »
ok the leaves... (the flowers are about 1/4" for scale)

and the tree from a few feet away

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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #41 on: April 19, 2010, 11:58:31 am »
Looks like   Ilex vomitoria.     Commonly called Yaupon Holly, Yaupon, or Cassina.   People used to make tea out of it.   

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« Reply #42 on: April 19, 2010, 12:44:17 pm »
...we do have puke plants around here; that's a possibility that didnt occur to me.
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« Reply #43 on: April 19, 2010, 12:48:10 pm »
So you have heard of the black drink?

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« Reply #44 on: April 19, 2010, 01:01:14 pm »
I haven't heard it called that, I did hear somewhere that that the local natives used a tea from it to treat certain ailments.
I can't figure what they'd treat by  inducing vomiting - it would mean that someone ate something worse than puke tea to start with.
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« Reply #45 on: April 19, 2010, 01:30:42 pm »
Native Americans used the leaves and stems to brew a tea called asi or black drink for male-only purification and unity rituals. The ceremony included vomiting, and Europeans incorrectly believed that it was the drink itself that caused it (hence the Latin name). The active ingredient is actually caffeine, and the vomiting was either learned or as a result of the great quantities in which they drank the beverage coupled with fasting.

I made the tea once in college.   I used sugar to sweeten it like today's sweet tea.  It was ok.  The bush I had got cut down a couple of years ago.

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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2010, 10:13:04 pm »
Here is a straight stem flower with red flowers clustered at the end. Sorry for no real good pictures. The area where it is planted is the "area of the nuknown." I get packets of seeds in from different places and sow them in this area. Does anyone know what the flower is










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« Reply #47 on: May 22, 2010, 08:44:17 am »
The red flowers are Sweet William.

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What variety of soybeans have purple blooms?
« Reply #48 on: April 18, 2011, 04:15:52 pm »
A local bee keeper told me that the purple bloom variety of soybeans is a good plant for honey production in our area (north Alabama). He said to avoid the white bloom variety.

Neither my county agent or local Farmer's Exchange Co-Op have been able to identify a purple bloom variety.  I've Goggled and can find a picture of not a name.

Anyone familiar with a purple bloom soybean that the bees can use early on and the deer can graze later?
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« Reply #49 on: April 18, 2011, 09:06:24 pm »
Bama, there’s millions of purple flowered soy beans grown here in Michigan.  Since there isn’t a weed to be seen in the fields, I would assume the purple ones the farmers plant here are GM soybeans (Roundup ready soybeans).  I rarely see any bees on them here though.  I’ve been told there are numerous cultivars of soy beans and that bees love some and hate others.  The soybeans grown down your way are probably different than the ones grown way up here, but I really don’t know.

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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2013, 09:49:01 pm »
Anybody know what this plant is?





Does anyone know what's wrong with my apple tree?




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« Reply #51 on: June 09, 2013, 06:55:44 pm »
I don't know what the top is, but I think the apple tree might have several problems - I'm no farmer and definitely no apple expert, so I hope I at least invite some more discussion - The spotting and yellowing looks like iron deficiency - the drying (I'm assuming you're making sure it's watered) - could mean a root pest or illness - There's a fruit tree food that may help with root growth. Remember I'm making a - somewhat - educated guess - but if anyone else can say for sure please step up.
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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #52 on: June 13, 2013, 02:22:37 pm »
My guess on the top plant is its a Clematis Vitalba.
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« Reply #53 on: September 30, 2014, 12:08:19 pm »
Ken, anyone what is this bloom? wild in the path down to my bees.






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« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2014, 05:33:48 am »
Looks like a fall blooming bulb; Lycoris radiate.  AKA as Spider Lily.

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« Reply #55 on: October 18, 2014, 08:44:26 pm »
Around here we call it a spider lily. It's a backwards plant. It blooms first in the fall then the leaves come out to absorb sunlight for the next year's blooming. Comes up from a bulb. Easy to transplant.
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« Reply #56 on: May 29, 2019, 06:49:54 pm »
There are some 15-20 feet holly trees at the entrance of Callaway Gardens' azalea bowl, an hour away from me. This spring there were so many honey bees on the inconspicuous flowers, that I could hear a magnificent droning from a good distance. It was not a Needlepoint or Nellie R Steven. Some kind of Opaca holly perhaps? Would anyone know what kind of holly that might be?

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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #57 on: May 31, 2019, 04:40:54 pm »
Bobil,
Do you have a picture?
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Re: Discuss plant id's here!! PHOTOS and Comments Welcome
« Reply #58 on: July 12, 2021, 06:42:36 pm »
Have a plant that I need to identify but can not post the pic. Can someone let me email it to them so they can resize and post?

Here is your plant picture:

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« Reply #59 on: July 12, 2021, 07:34:02 pm »
Have a plant that I need to identify but can not post the pic. Can someone let me email it to them so they can resize and post?
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