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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.

Anybody recognize the critter?
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
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DigitalVinyl wrote:
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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.

Anybody recognize the critter?
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph


Kind of looks like a pokeweed I had in my yard last year. If it is, you
want to get rid of it. It's a huge, nasty plant that will take over your
neighborhood. Make sure to get all of the root or it'll come right back.

Pat

"DigitalVinyl" wrote in message
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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.


I don't think it is poke weed. Poke weed is a nuisance for me, but I don't
find it too hard to control. I just keep cutting or stepping it down.
Eventually it dies.

The plant in the picture look very similar to brugmansia. Maybe it is a
datura. I would let it go and see what happens.
http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/

DigitalVinyl wrote:

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Could this be an avocado plant?!
Certainly has a tropical look to the leaves.

I think I may have tossed a avocado pit or two into compost sometime
and mixed it into the soil last fall.

Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.

Anybody recognize the critter?
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph

you are right, it is an avocado. I have two as houseplants and I was
wondering why it looked so familiar.

Phytolacca americana, better known as "Poke Weed".

The fruit is a berry and birds drop the seeds everywhere in their poop.


"DigitalVinyl" wrote in message
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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.

Anybody recognize the critter?
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph

DigitalVinyl wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...af.jpg&.src=ph

Could this be an avocado plant?!
Certainly has a tropical look to the leaves.

I think I may have tossed a avocado pit or two into compost sometime
and mixed it into the soil last fall.

Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.
Don't think it is an Avocado. An Avocado would not grow that much in 2
days.

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

Definitely not an avocado.

Avocados aren't fleshy with shiny leaves.

Its "Poke Weed", Phytolacca americana.



"Travis" wrote in message
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DigitalVinyl wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...af.jpg&.src=ph

Could this be an avocado plant?!
Certainly has a tropical look to the leaves.

I think I may have tossed a avocado pit or two into compost sometime
and mixed it into the soil last fall.

Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.
Don't think it is an Avocado. An Avocado would not grow that much in 2
days.

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

Travis wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...af.jpg&.src=ph

Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.

Could this be an avocado plant?!
Certainly has a tropical look to the leaves.

I think I may have tossed a avocado pit or two into compost sometime
and mixed it into the soil last fall.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.
Don't think it is an Avocado. An Avocado would not grow
that much in 2 days.

Looks like a milkweed to me. Also looks like something I'd dig out
and throw in a garbage bag.

Dick

Dick Adams wrote:

Travis wrote:

DigitalVinyl wrote:

DigitalVinyl wrote:


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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.


Looks like a milkweed to me. Also looks like something I'd dig out
and throw in a garbage bag.

I also believe it is milkweed. A string trimmer makes short work of it.

It has the appearance of a pokeweed seedling, if it were returning from
a perennial rootstock the stems would be fatter and somewhat red.

Milkweeds (Asclepias) have their leaves in pairs or sometimes whorled, not
alternate, Dickhead.

Throw it out, maybe. Poke Weed is edible.


"Dick Adams" wrote in message
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Travis wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...af.jpg&.src=ph

Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.

Could this be an avocado plant?!
Certainly has a tropical look to the leaves.

I think I may have tossed a avocado pit or two into compost sometime
and mixed it into the soil last fall.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.
Don't think it is an Avocado. An Avocado would not grow
that much in 2 days.

Looks like a milkweed to me. Also looks like something I'd dig out
and throw in a garbage bag.

Dick

You go ahead and believe that, Stubby, but you would still be completely
wrong.

Fifty lashes with a string trimmer for you.


"Stubby" wrote in message
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Dick Adams wrote:

Travis wrote:

DigitalVinyl wrote:

DigitalVinyl wrote:


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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in
about 2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on
Saturday and Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall,
foot-wide plant was there.


Looks like a milkweed to me. Also looks like something I'd dig out
and throw in a garbage bag.

I also believe it is milkweed. A string trimmer makes short work of it.

"Vox Humana" wrote:


"DigitalVinyl" wrote in message
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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.


I don't think it is poke weed. Poke weed is a nuisance for me, but I don't
find it too hard to control. I just keep cutting or stepping it down.
Eventually it dies.

The plant in the picture look very similar to brugmansia. Maybe it is a
datura. I would let it go and see what happens.
http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/


I did grow a datura (flower points downward--they get confused with
brughmansia a lot). Although this lacks the furry/slky feel of the
leaves. Also my datura had a hairy stem.


DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph

"Cereus-validus....." wrote:

Phytolacca americana, better known as "Poke Weed".

The fruit is a berry and birds drop the seeds everywhere in their poop.

Checked out some photos online, looks like a match. Even found one
showing the tiny leaves sprouting from the crotches. Although almost
all the pictures show red stems. The seedling pictures I found look
like the smaller weeds I am pulling out in bunches out back. It was a
new one this year... hadn't seen that seedling type before.

I can't be bothered with cooking it for greens--have to cook them as
they are poisonous raw and/or when mature. Out it comes.

Thanks to all...



"DigitalVinyl" wrote in message
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Found this foot tall...weed? Seems to have magically appeared in about
2 days. I just pulled bolted spinach from the bed on Saturday and
Monday evening and never noticed this foot-tall, foot-wide plant was
there.

Unless it is a volunteer of somethign I can't recognize.

Anybody recognize the critter?
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph


DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph