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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

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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.

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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???

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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.