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a little off center, but these pods form then turn papery brown


if I take the papery brown covering off there is a green ball

Best of four

Might be the Chinese Lantern........

They turn orange in the fall on the outside.. and have a ball inside......

dodge........;o)

is it invasive?

I looked it up on the internet and that's it. Thanks.

bestof four

Mine wasnt invasive......But it did come back each year........About 3 stocks......Hardy.

dodge

It's not a chinese lantern...
I will find out what it is for you though..

I had ONE pop up by the kids dirt pile and
I resued it..
It had yellow flowers on in...
but I don't know the name either...

I'll hunt it down though...
*remind me, if no one comes thru with a positive ID!*

Alright, the closest thing I can come up with
is a "ground cherry"..........

Click here for a picture and write up...

Sheri,
Did you see any flowers on it???
What color if you did??

Mine were a pale yellow.

It is a Physalis, which one I don't know
The family includes Tomatillos and Chinese Lanterns among others.

Found a good picture this time......

Ground Cherry

Yep, it's in that same family!!!

Another solved...
*I am excited, cause I had this one too,
and didn't know the name of it.*

zuzu


hey big time operation here........

Now we accomplished something.....may you all sleep in peace tonite..;o)

Dodge

it doesn't get flowers. After the papery coverings fall off the green berry is just hanging there - so far.

the foliage on my plant looks different than that Ground Cherry though. The leaves on my plant are holly looking with the pointed ends.

Sheri, yours is probably Smooth Ground Cherry
(Physalis virginiana)
Photo of Smooth Ground Cherry
(Scroll down to almost the bottom of the page)

Tula, that looks like it even though I haven't seen any flowers.

Sheri,
The flowers would have been waaaay before those
papery lantern things...

After I found mine, *and it was covered with flowers and no paper lantern things*

Then slowly they switched over and since they went to the lanterns, I haven't seen any new flowers...

As for if the plant over winters, I don't know yet... we'll see this winter and come spring.. *if they are like a Chinese Lantern in growing habits* or if they only reseed by the lantern seed...

Did you keep yours or pull it yet???

bestof four

So are mine.........

Dodge

Mine are just like Sheri's.
I pull them up...but they keep coming back...thicker every year.

Cindy,
Do they come back from that stem?
And when you say thicker, do you mean the stem
gets thicker or more plants come in and the area with them is thicker/full of them???

I haven't pulled it up. It's not hurting anything. It's in the garden with the okra.

It looks like a tomatillo to me... [img]http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286122sdc-photo[/img] [img]http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286132sdc-photo[/img] [img]http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286124sdc-photo[/img]

I can[t see the tomatillo photos that I posted...
just in case, you can take a look at them here:

http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286124sdc-photo
http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286132sdc-photo
http://it.inmagine.com/sd153/286122sdc-photo

OK - I got what I 'think' that is in a few spots -it loves coming up on the retaining wall around the old wood stummps there.

And in the morning glory patch - dunno' why it wants to be there - probably to thwart some hapless morning glories.

Anyway - here it is . . .



It looks like the same thing.

Everybody tells me it's a weed - what are you cultivating that for? It's a weed! What is it anyway?

That's what they say and say - it's an idunnosia, also known as udunnosia, and it falls under the family of nunyabizia.

Ha ha!

It's beside the portulaca, of course and it climbs up a tree stump which is another thing I don't want to cut out.

The adjoining neighbour tells me my 'weeds' are interfering with his cedar hedges - ha! Most of my 'weeds' are plants that grow in from his side.

So I just trim them and let on that I've hawked everything up by their ugly evil roots. Y'all know there's very few things I do that - I take them by their roots and plant 'em where I want 'em growing.

Sons o' guns - they better leave me alone or I'll send my thistles out after 'em.

carly

maybe some snakes.lol

dodge

Yeah - I don't have any though.

Actually, I like my neighbour - her husband is the one who likes to blame his failures on other peoples weeds.

If he'd just lie down on his perfectly groomed grass there, he could spend an afternoon picking 'his weeds' out from his cedars.

I don't know why he planted those cedars so close to the fence anyway.

Our side of the fence is a parking lot, belonging to our apartment building - he doesn't like the apartment building being there (even though it was here when he bought his house).

He considers everything on this side of the fence there as garbage. And doesn't see why we should have something nice to look at on the retaining wall - after all, we're just apartment dwellers - it's not as we're HOME OWNERS . . . somebody IMPORTANT.

He doesn't actually say these kinds of things but you can read it pretty easily.

Guess he can't help being who he is - pernickity.

I did take out the wild garlic mustard on that fence (which looks awful after it blooms anyway). But little do these 'afterthewildgarlicmonster' people kmnw, I've been mulching it, seeds, roots and all into my mulching corner on the south west section of the property.

Hee Hee!

I happen to LIKE wild garlic mustard plants - they make great fill and they're nice looking. So, they invade - if there's nothing to invade, who cares?

So the seeds blow into other gardens - ha! Every hear of weeding, gardeners?

The park - High Park, a major park in Toronto, is a stone's throw from us - they are 'thinking of' getting 'roundup' to chase after the invasive, NON-NATIVE wild garlic mustard plant.

The city has nothing better to do with their/our money than chase after non-native plants and dicker around with the eggs of birds they don't want here either - especially the Canada Goose and the Mute Swan (who is not a native bird).

Geesh!

Sorry - I ranted.

Carly,

Loved your story...........Makes me so glad Ilive on a farm.........
We do have problems on all sides of it, but we just ignore rude folks............
one thinks she is dumping her dirt in our cow pasture, and the truth is , it is another neiggbors corner, which she told us to use to keep weeds down,..Our cows do.
Another 2 have 8 feet of our borders.......We just sit back an watch.......Surveys caught them in the summer, and now there is hell in the holy land, not from us.....
3 neighbor runs on our border to farm, so we put a fence there to make him move over...Each time he yells, we put the fence over more.......

Ha ha
We just ignore them........
Anyways ..........THe snooty ones should know....I am not worse than you are, and your no better than me.........

You got the right attitude...........Hang in there. Tell em you dont scare easily..lol.

dodge ;o)

Parts of chinese lanterns are poisonous. Know what you've got before you eat any of it!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1894/index.html

margaret

Who is eating chinese Lanterns?????

We use them for fall decorations, like wreaths.

PS. Love IN a Puff has the lantern type of coverning.......And the seeds have little hearts on them.. I enjoyed picking them.. maybe I can create a craft from them?

dodge

margaret

Who is eating chinese Lanterns?????

We use them for fall decorations, like wreaths.

PS. Love IN a Puff has the lantern type of coverning.......And the seeds have little hearts on them.. I enjoyed picking them.. maybe I can create a craft from them?

dodge

Well, that particular wall I showed has a lot of stuff coming up from it, and from the neighbour's yard, like I said.

Something in the trees on our retaining walls must be poisonous, 'cause we react when we trim or dig out.

It gives you a sick feeling, kinda' like a sore throat coming on. When I had a heartbeat problem in the summer, I'd been working around there before I went to the hospital.

I spent the night there - heart rate went up to 190 . . . crazy, eh? But the doc there said it wouldn't have been the plants that did it.

I do have an appointment with the cardiologist on Tuesday - it will be my first with a doctor of this nature. I'll try to remember to mention all that growth along the retaining walls.

Maybe it is something there that causes problems.

I'll also try to remember to take a picture of the same stuff that's growing in the morning glory patch.

There isn't a lot of it on the retaining wall - just in that one spot I showed.

Here's another shot of that same plant - in that same spot - this picture is from July 11th.



As you can see there's some clover in there - portulaca on each side. That, btw, came in very nicely; you've seen my pics of it - amazing plant.

And I do trim that clover at least once a week - haven't the heart to remove it - it looks nice when the portulaca is making her flowers.

Carly,
From what I can see of it, it's WOODSORREL , it's not poisonous..

Its in the Oxalis family.ha ha

No poison....

dodge

Here's the same stuff in the morning glory patch . . .



Yes, it had yellow flowers in summer - doesn't look that good when it's on the lam.