This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Possibly an avocado tree. (guess)

Peak Warming Man said:

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Possibly an avocado tree. (guess)

Shit. I dislike avocadoes, and so does Mrs S.

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Loquat?

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Loquat?

Sorry, my Latin’s not as good as it used to be.

(Honestly, i wouldn’t recognise a loquat if you beaned me with one.)

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Loquat?

Sorry, my Latin’s not as good as it used to be.

(Honestly, i wouldn’t recognise a loquat if you beaned me with one.)

Just a guess. My father grew them.
https://akmegardens.com/products/loquat-tree-eriobotrya-japonica

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Loquat?

Sorry, my Latin’s not as good as it used to be.

(Honestly, i wouldn’t recognise a loquat if you beaned me with one.)

Just a guess. My father grew them.
https://akmegardens.com/products/loquat-tree-eriobotrya-japonica

Well, yeah, it looks like a possibility.

If it is, i’m dashed if i know how it got here. Seed in a bird poo is the only thing i can think of. Do loquats have seeds which would traverse a bird’s innards?

No idea about bird guts.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

Sorry, my Latin’s not as good as it used to be.

(Honestly, i wouldn’t recognise a loquat if you beaned me with one.)

Just a guess. My father grew them.
https://akmegardens.com/products/loquat-tree-eriobotrya-japonica

Well, yeah, it looks like a possibility.

If it is, i’m dashed if i know how it got here. Seed in a bird poo is the only thing i can think of. Do loquats have seeds which would traverse a bird’s innards?

Yes. The seeds are quite large. We had feral loquats come up in Brisbane. We let one shrub grow and got the occasional fruit.

kii said:

No idea about bird guts.

The flowers of the loquat look pretty nice.

Perhaps i should let it flower (if it does), and see if they resemble that.

I don’t think your interlopers are loquat plants, the leaves don’t look ‘quilty’ enough. Though it is a good guess, leaf size and shape and colour is about right.
My guess would be Solanum mauritianum. Are the leaf undersides rather furry?

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

No idea about bird guts.

The flowers of the loquat look pretty nice.

Perhaps i should let it flower (if it does), and see if they resemble that.

Looking at those leaf margins, and comparing them with yours, they may not be loquats.

Im always impressed by the way that ‘feral’ plants do better than ‘pet’ plants.

Around here, tomatoes in pots get a lot of leaf blight, which is, apparently, caused by some virus or something in the soil.

Yet there’s a ‘feral’ tomato plant, growing out of the edge of what i jokingly call ‘the lawn’, and does it have a single sign of leaf blight? Nope, not a bit of it.

And now i might have a loquat tree.

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

No idea about bird guts.

The flowers of the loquat look pretty nice.

Perhaps i should let it flower (if it does), and see if they resemble that.

Looking at those leaf margins, and comparing them with yours, they may not be loquats.

Ahhh yes, Michael is right about the leaf margins as well.

Do the leaves smell when you crush them?

Ruby,

‘yes’ to both questions.

Very short hairs that give a silvery sheen to the leaf in sunlight.

And a smell that’s not actually repellent, but not pleasant.

captain_spalding said:

Ruby,

‘yes’ to both questions.

Very short hairs that give a silvery sheen to the leaf in sunlight.

And a smell that’s not actually repellent, but not pleasant.

It is a well known weed and it pops up in every garden I have ever visited, so I think Solanum mauritianum is a strong possibility. With the emphasis on strong once you start having to pull more than a few out

ruby said:

I don’t think your interlopers are loquat plants, the leaves don’t look ‘quilty’ enough. Though it is a good guess, leaf size and shape and colour is about right.
My guess would be Solanum mauritianum. Are the leaf undersides rather furry?

Yeah, I thought wild tobacco.. but the leaves too shiny

Ian said:

ruby said:

I don’t think your interlopers are loquat plants, the leaves don’t look ‘quilty’ enough. Though it is a good guess, leaf size and shape and colour is about right.
My guess would be Solanum mauritianum. Are the leaf undersides rather furry?

Yeah, I thought wild tobacco.. but the leaves too shiny

Maybe one of the other solanums then. It would be fun if it turned out to be proper tobacco

ruby said:

Maybe one of the other solanums then. It would be fun if it turned out to be proper tobacco

No use for tobacco around here.

I think i’m going to go all ‘Ranch Hand’ on it.

captain_spalding said:

ruby said:

Maybe one of the other solanums then. It would be fun if it turned out to be proper tobacco

No use for tobacco around here.

I think i’m going to go all ‘Ranch Hand’ on it.

How about taking a leaf to a nursery to get an ID? Before you take it to the train station?

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

ruby said:

Maybe one of the other solanums then. It would be fun if it turned out to be proper tobacco

No use for tobacco around here.

I think i’m going to go all ‘Ranch Hand’ on it.

How about taking a leaf to a nursery to get an ID? Before you take it to the train station?

(grudgingly) Well, all right. (mumbles: never get to have any fun ‘round here…)

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

No use for tobacco around here.

I think i’m going to go all ‘Ranch Hand’ on it.

How about taking a leaf to a nursery to get an ID? Before you take it to the train station?

(grudgingly) Well, all right. (mumbles: never get to have any fun ‘round here…)

Cool.
(So you understood the train station reference?)

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How about taking a leaf to a nursery to get an ID? Before you take it to the train station?

(grudgingly) Well, all right. (mumbles: never get to have any fun ‘round here…)

Cool.
(So you understood the train station reference?)

Yes. I was surprised to see it, and even more surprised that i had i recalled its meaning.

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How about taking a leaf to a nursery to get an ID? Before you take it to the train station?

(grudgingly) Well, all right. (mumbles: never get to have any fun ‘round here…)

Cool.
(So you understood the train station reference?)

IDGI

Michael V said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

(grudgingly) Well, all right. (mumbles: never get to have any fun ‘round here…)

Cool.
(So you understood the train station reference?)

IDGI

There’s a TV series called Yellowstone. One of the storyline features The Train Station. An isolated place with no legal overlook. So the cowboys dump bodies there.
I think it’s a real place.

kii said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

Cool.
(So you understood the train station reference?)

IDGI

There’s a TV series called Yellowstone. One of the storyline features The Train Station. An isolated place with no legal overlook. So the cowboys dump bodies there.
I think it’s a real place.

Thank you. I haven’t seen the series. Explains why I didn’t get it.

Michael V said:

kii said:

Michael V said:

IDGI

There’s a TV series called Yellowstone. One of the storyline features The Train Station. An isolated place with no legal overlook. So the cowboys dump bodies there.
I think it’s a real place.

Thank you. I haven’t seen the series. Explains why I didn’t get it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)
mr kii told me about it before the TV series.

kii said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

There’s a TV series called Yellowstone. One of the storyline features The Train Station. An isolated place with no legal overlook. So the cowboys dump bodies there.
I think it’s a real place.

Thank you. I haven’t seen the series. Explains why I didn’t get it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)
mr kii told me about it before the TV series.

How strange. What a loophole.

kii said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

There’s a TV series called Yellowstone. One of the storyline features The Train Station. An isolated place with no legal overlook. So the cowboys dump bodies there.
I think it’s a real place.

Thank you. I haven’t seen the series. Explains why I didn’t get it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)
mr kii told me about it before the TV series.

To clarify, it’s a real place. Use as a drop off for bodies may be fictional. Pretty sure the name is fictitious.

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

captain_spalding said:

This thing keeps popping up in our backyard. Can anyone identify it? I’m not sure as to whether to leave it, or go for the nuk-u-lar option.

Possibly an avocado tree. (guess)

Shit. I dislike avocadoes, and so does Mrs S.

Avocados ain’t Avocados

Unless an known and edible Avocado branch has been granted on a trunk of an existing young tree chances are the Avocados will be disgusting. Random chance of a Avocado seed yielding a tree with edible fruit (?) Is low.

It is definitely neither an avocado or loquat.

The petioles aren’t too obvious in the photo but that may be because the foliage is fairly dense. Wild tobacco and Solanum mauritianum both have very visible longer petioles than I can see here.

If you allow it to flower, this will help a lot with ID.
Solanum mauritianum flowers

Tree tobacco flowers and leaves