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Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else?
http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks Mitch |
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Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks I think this is a box elder seedling. Note the leaves are opposite of each other on the stem. http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weed...ord.asp?id=440 -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (attributed to Don Marti) |
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Ann wrote in news:ic5e33dtfdjt55v5b3qf0fa7n938lajqg5
@4ax.com: expounded: Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks Mitch Poison ivy! Seriously, it's either poison ivy or poison oak - leaves of three, let it be! LOL. I've never seen poison ivy in person but that was my first thought, too. Well, considering the placement of the ruler, the OP might already have found out if it is, indeed, poison ivy. |
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On May 1, 7:21 am, FragileWarrior
wrote: Ann wrote in news:ic5e33dtfdjt55v5b3qf0fa7n938lajqg5 @4ax.com: expounded: Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks Mitch Poison ivy! Seriously, it's either poison ivy or poison oak - leaves of three, let it be! LOL. I've never seen poison ivy in person but that was my first thought, too. Well, considering the placement of the ruler, the OP might already have found out if it is, indeed, poison ivy. I don't know. I planted a lot of acorns last Fall and have been looking for them lately. Seems the squirrels have gotten some and I read somewhere that only about 1/7th of the ones planted germinate. I thought PI too maybe. thanks Mitch |
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On May 1, 8:12 am, wrote:
On May 1, 7:21 am, FragileWarrior wrote: Ann wrote in news:ic5e33dtfdjt55v5b3qf0fa7n938lajqg5 @4ax.com: expounded: Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks Mitch Poison ivy! Seriously, it's either poison ivy or poison oak - leaves of three, let it be! LOL. I've never seen poison ivy in person but that was my first thought, too. Well, considering the placement of the ruler, the OP might already have found out if it is, indeed, poison ivy. I don't know. I planted a lot of acorns last Fall and have been looking for them lately. Seems the squirrels have gotten some and I read somewhere that only about 1/7th of the ones planted germinate. I thought PI too maybe. thanks Mitch Actually, there's an Ash growing 20 or so feet up the hill, so maybe indeed thats what it is. Time will tell. Mitch |
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Ann wrote in
: expounded: Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg thanks Mitch Poison ivy! Seriously, it's either poison ivy or poison oak - leaves of three, let it be! LOL! Nothing like PI. Three-part compound leaves are pretty common, incidentally. Certainly not an ash or oak, either. _Acer negundo_ (called "Manitoba maple" in my part of the world, "Box elder" in the U.S.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- A L B E R T A Alfred Falk R E S E A R C H Information Systems Dept (780)450-5185 C O U N C I L 250 Karl Clark Road Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://www.arc.ab.ca/ T6N 1E4 http://outside.arc.ab.ca/staff/falk/ |
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Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else?
http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg Not an oak... oaks have alternate leaves with lobed, but not divided, leaf blades. Not poison ivy... PI has alternate leaves also, trifoliolate, with a stalked central leaflet. Possibly an ash seedling, though most species have young leaves with 5-7 leaflets instead of just three. Leaves are opposite in most species. Most likely a box elder seedling, Acer negundo -- youngest leaves are often trifoliolate, with a central stalked petiole, but leaves are opposite and what I see of the petiole looks good for A. negundo. Here's a nice series of photos: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mbierner/bio406D/images/pics/ace/acer_negundo.htm Check the petiole base shape on your seedling vs. the ash you mention and the photos of A. negundo. Also pull off a leaf (not a leaflet) and check the patterns of the main veins leading into the stem -- in the fall, these will be the "dots" inside the leaf scar. Where was the photo taken? Kay |
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On May 1, 5:42 pm, Kay Lancaster wrote:
Thought it might be an Oak seedling but maybe its something else? http://www.geocities.com/kalmia332001/100_0740.jpg Not an oak... oaks have alternate leaves with lobed, but not divided, leaf blades. Not poison ivy... PI has alternate leaves also, trifoliolate, with a stalked central leaflet. Possibly an ash seedling, though most species have young leaves with 5-7 leaflets instead of just three. Leaves are opposite in most species. Most likely a box elder seedling, Acer negundo -- youngest leaves are often trifoliolate, with a central stalked petiole, but leaves are opposite and what I see of the petiole looks good for A. negundo. Here's a nice series of photos: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mbierner/bio406D/images/pics/ace/acer_negun... Check the petiole base shape on your seedling vs. the ash you mention and the photos of A. negundo. Also pull off a leaf (not a leaflet) and check the patterns of the main veins leading into the stem -- in the fall, these will be the "dots" inside the leaf scar. Where was the photo taken? Kay In central Maryland. mitch |
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Where was the photo taken?
In central Maryland. Makes Acer negundo a whole lot more possible then... if you said you'd taken the photo in, say, Italy, I'd consider it a whole lot less likely. (Native range of A. negundo: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/acer/negundo.htm ) There just isn't enough detail apparent in the photo to make me 100% comfortable with calling it "for sure". But it sure looks like the box elder seedlings I used to lead my botany students into and then ask them what they were standing in, after they'd all assured me they knew what poison ivy looked like and always avoided it. After they came back down from attempting to levitate above "omg! poison ivy! and I'm standing in it!" they were much more likely to stay out of PI for real, and chuckle everytime we found more box elder. Trying to id plants from a single photo is just not an easy thing to do. Probabilities, not certainties, in most cases. Kay |
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On May 2, 5:42 am, Kay Lancaster wrote:
Where was the photo taken? In central Maryland. Makes Acer negundo a whole lot more possible then... if you said you'd taken the photo in, say, Italy, I'd consider it a whole lot less likely. (Native range of A. negundo: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/acer/negundo.htm ) There just isn't enough detail apparent in the photo to make me 100% comfortable with calling it "for sure". But it sure looks like the box elder seedlings I used to lead my botany students into and then ask them what they were standing in, after they'd all assured me they knew what poison ivy looked like and always avoided it. After they came back down from attempting to levitate above "omg! poison ivy! and I'm standing in it!" they were much more likely to stay out of PI for real, and chuckle everytime we found more box elder. Trying to id plants from a single photo is just not an easy thing to do. Probabilities, not certainties, in most cases. Kay Thanks. BTW, the tree I referred to as Ash may be Ashleaf maple. Ash is what a tree cutter called it when I asked him what it was..thanks again Mitch |
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