#plant ID

[vibinwiththefrogs]

Cane/Bamboo Adventures Part 1/?

So we just moved into a new house and there's this huge thing in the very back of the yard along a creek that I thought was bamboo, then I thought it was cane, and then after checking as many cane ID posts and videos I could find, I'm still completely unsure. My friend who's a wildlife student says it doesn't look like bamboo to her, but we both agree it doesn't look like the cane we've seen around South Georgia. She said it must be Arundinaria gigantea because no other cane gets this large, but all the cane we've seen identified as A. gigantea doesn't look like this. Here's my notes and some pics.

First, the leaves are much smaller than cane I've seen around here. Even very small, young cane around here has leaves about the length of my forearm.

Second, a couple things online I found distinguishing bamboo from cane say that new bamboo branches grow outward, while cane grows more upward. However there seems to be both upward and outward shoots on this bunch (examples of both pictured above). Also worth noting, the picture above on the left is the biggest diameter branch I found. I have relatively small hands for context (I wear small-medium sized gloves).

Then here's just some more pictures. I crawled down into a creek for the root picture (left)(a steep 7 foot drop haha). The middle picture is the youngest bunch I found, again it doesn't resemble cane I've seen around here. The picture on the right is a further away picture after I cleared some dead branches.

Also worth noting, this is tucked behind a house, between a fence, a creek, and like 3 trees. So it doesn't have a ton of space to grow, and I'm guessing that's why it's so dense.

If anyone happens to know anything about this please let me know! A week or so ago I emailed a guy from NC State and uploaded it on inaturalist, but I haven't received any replies or ID 😭

#I'm working on clearing out all the dead branches currently to give it more space #native plants #bamboo #cane #river cane #plant identification #plant ID #arundinaria gigantea #? #solarpunk

[platypu]

you think you know suffering? can you look me in the eyes and tell me you have experienced a pain worse than trying to learn how to identify grass? do you know what an awn is? have you heard of a lemna? you want me to get my little microscope out and be able to know what the achene is supposed to be? what the fuck. what the fuck are these words. You want me to pull apart this miniscule piece of shit with my hungry hungry hands? what am I? a fucking surgeon? no, no don't point out what the glumes are. I don't want to know anymore. get me out. get me out. get me out of here-

#and then it wasn't even on the exam #biology #zoology #ecology #nature #inaturalist #botany #flora #conservation #biodiversity #plant id #plants #grass #plantcore

[typhlonectes]

#botany #grasses #sedges #plants #science #plant ID #nature #memes

[los-plantalones]

The beautiful, bright red, winter-available fruits that I love and adore:

The absolute assholes that are ALSO bright red and winter-available but also highly invasive:

#plant identification #nature #foraging #rose hips #asiatic bittersweet #berries #plant id #winter fruit #los-plantalones #i made ink out of these two plants recently and i have a lot of feelings about both of them #i will make another post about how to tell the difference between them if y'all are interested in that kind of content

[homeofhousechickens]

Alright plant nerds. Saw this weird plant on the road but couldn't get a picture. My partner thought it was a fucked up dandelion. It had a tall dark purple stem and yellow? Seed heads or flowers? That reminded me of wild parsley. The stem was pretty thick looking, the leaves were dark green and spikey with a bit of purple at the base and it looked like thicker dandelion leaves almost. I'm in the Midwest and this plant was along the road in a parking lot.

If I see a picture of this plant I should be able to know it instantly because it was pretty interesting looking.

#plant identification #plant help #help identify #plant id

[dailybotany]

hey! from the Mediterranean and i found something that looked like a sweet potato in the parking lot and brought it home because. free sweet potato. but it is. not a sweet potato probably? and i was wondering if you do happen to know what it is.

thank you and have a great day either way.

Hi this is the funniest ask ive ever received fjdjdjdjdjd congrats on ur tuber adventure

possibly my favorite thing about this is that you have not at all specified if this is a parking lot in which one would reasonably expect to find edible foods like, say, a grocery store, or if it was instead. a garden store. Or hardware store. Or theater.

All following advice is going to be based on the assumption that this parking lot was a statistically likely place to find lost scrumptious treats: if this is not the case, I cannot in good conscience tell you to eat it.

I think it's either a pale sweet potato variety or a yam--detailed walk-through of my reasoning under the cut!

I hope that's...a little helpful? Good luck with your parking lot tuber!

It appears to have pock-marking that could be either eyes or root scars and a thin epidermis. The smoothness of the epidermis eliminates cassava and a few other tuberose root vegetables. The length and size also eliminate several options, including variety options within potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams--the most likely candidate groups your tuber belongs to.

Luckily, looking closer* at the vascular bundling can help us here! True potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are produced from modified stem tissue, while sweet potatoes (Ipomoea) and yams (Dioscorea) are modified root systems.

A stem system would have concentrated vascular bundling around the circumference, with an expanded starchy pith. Roots just sort of have their vascular systems wiggling around loose, and have more central bundling. It looks like that is what is happening here--so that's a no to the regular ol' potato.

So, either a yam or a sweet potato!

There are some pale sweet potato varieties--the "Hannah" sweet potato is my best guess, followed by the Japanese sweet potato. Failing that, some kind of yam (likely Dioscorea alata, D. cayanensis, or D. rotundata, but soooo many grains of salt).

*Thank you for sending me another picture of the cross section!

#thank you for sending this i had so much fun #love a little mystery #plant id #parking lot tuber #edible plants #raincoats speaks #botany

[orofeaiel]

This is not a paid advertisement I just love the Seek app

#artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #hiking #pacific northwest #nature #washington #pnw #nikon #orofeaiel #seek #inaturalist #plant id #shining crane's-bill #plants #naturecore #green #forest finds

[leebrontide]

Hey #gardenblr- anybody know what this stuff is? Zone 4. Stays under a foot tall. Loves sun. Drought tolerant and eating up all the space that was once grassy lawn in my back yard.

I adore it. I wanted to get rid of the lawn grass and go with something that doesn’t need watering or mowing and this just showed up and started self seeding all over the place!

I assumed it was clover till it started blooming but those don’t look like clover flowers to me.

EDIT/ADDITION: It's yellow wood sorrel! Thanks to @seeingteacupsindragons for the ID. It's native and edible! How perfect! I have no idea how it got here but I'm very happy it's here.

#plant identification #plants #plant ID #gardening

[plantaffinity]

I got a new plant, mostly from shock because I've never seen this plant before. I have a habit of naming every plant I see to my boyfriend when we're in plant stores, and I got to this one and said "monkey mask" but then I stopped and went... no that's not a monkey mask. I went to look at the label and it said Pothos!

After some googling I think it's called Pothos baltic blue. I would say I'm certain but the plant was much more whiteish blue hue and photos on google were more green, but now that I've given it a shower it looks very green like the photos. What also threw me off is that this plant was pretty cheap, like normal pothos-at-plant-shop price, while the ones I saw on google were.. pretty expensive. The cashier said it was a "new type of pothos she had never seen before" or something so I think it was definitely sold to them as a pothos.

Does anyone know what it is for sure? And any additional info about the plant? Is it really that expensive, did I get a good price?

I almost changed my mind and said it was a Pothos cebu blue but Here's a picture of the oldest biggest leaf, it almost looks like a tetrasperma leaf. When comparing differences between cebu blue and baltic blue, the big leaves seem to be the biggest difference, where the baltic blue seems to develope more tetrasperma-looking leaves while the cebu blue is a much more normal pothos-in-the-wild look

#plants #plantblr #pothos #pothos baltic blue #epipremnum #epipremnum baltic blue #epipremnum pinnatum baltic blue #plant id

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Spotted St. John's Wort - Hypericum punctatum

#plant id #wildflowers #native plants #medicinal plants #hypericum #hypericum punctatum #st john's wort #spotted st john's wort #saint john's wort

[balkanradfem]

I found these abandoned on the forest floor, someone was pruning their plant and just left them. The thing is, they smell a lot like bayleaf! They also look very similar color-wise, but they're a bit more elongated. I tried to chew on one, and it tastes kinda like bayleaf but also a bit more bitter and spicy, so I'm unsure! Is there a way to be sure this is bayleaf?

I feel like ... 75% sure it's bayleaf. I guess I'll put one in my food and then see how it turns out!

#potential bayleaf #plant ID #found some plants #i found more pruned plants too but others were decorative #this could be something decorative too but #the smell of bayleaf is there!

[wishful-seeker]

Can someone tell me if this is wild strawberry? Found at a park

#plant identification #plant id

[queer-forager]

A stinging nettle growing out of a log covered in moss. 💚

[Nature Walk & Foraging 03.28.2024]

#foraging #nature #nature walk #stinging nettles #logs #moss #plant foraging #plant id #plant identification #wild edibles #queer forager #alihartforages #oc

[endcant]

hal got an ad for a shitty plant ID app that IN THE AD says you should kill virginia creeper and keep european nettle because virginia creeper is a "weed" and european nettle is an "herb" and its like HELLO for the love of all life on this fucking planet . virginia creeper is native to the region theyre advertising this to (in the case of me and hal and others in north america at least) and european nettle is invasive. for fucking fuck's sake

anyway if you want a good plant animal AND fungi identification app, inaturalist has an AI that makes pretty good suggestions and also a massive and eager community of obsessive naturalists who will tell you if the AI got it wrong, like, within a few days. so please just get inaturalist

#identification app #species identification #plant id #picturethis #inat #mine

[ilovedirt]

can anyone . . . direct me towards a name?

#fungus #slime mold #plant #plant id #taxonomy #what is this #ahhhhhhh #about me #31

[thedisablednaturalist]

Has anyone else been having trouble with inaturalist recently?

Idk if its always been horrible for plants, but its been ridiculous. It's throwing plants at me that look nothing like the one I show it. And google is no help at all. I've had to resort to bringing a whole freaking library of id books with me into the field.

#wrenfea.exe #from the field #plant id #botany #inaturalist #i know plant id is notoriously hard this time of year in the temperate forest region #but this is ridiculous #also inaturalist loves to only show me the flowers #if the plant had flowers on it id be able to id it!!! show me the freakin leaves!!