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,
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
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.
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.
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
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.
Don't think it is an Avocado. An Avocado would not grow that much in 2 days.
Definitely not an avocado.
Avocados aren't fleshy with shiny leaves.
Its "Poke Weed", Phytolacca americana.
Looks like a milkweed to me. Also looks like something I'd dig out and throw in a garbage bag.
Dick
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.
You go ahead and believe that, Stubby, but you would still be completely wrong.
Fifty lashes with a string trimmer for you.
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,
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...
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
If you all had listened to me, I told you at beginning it was pokeweed. It sprouted a huge tree thingy in my yard last year and I've been seeing it sprouting here and there this year. It's a pain in the butt!
Pat
Yes, Pat, you were right. :-)
Although I find it interesting that different weeds show up each year. THis is a first for pokeweed in three years. I have pulled over a dozen of a tree...the seed looks like a chestnut (five fingered light green leaves with red blotches in the leaf). The squirrels have apparently buried them in all of my vegetable beds. I know cause they were sifted with a fine wire mesh and there is no way I missed all these 1 inch round nuts. This didn't show up the two previous years--maybe the tree has a cycle.
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
Damn squirrels. What did somebody on here call them? Lawn rats? I think that's appropriate.
Pat
I'm guessing this is the mother PokeWeed plant-- doesn't have a red stem as much as a purple-ish one. Almost looks like it is purple underneath a green skin.
It has a thick and very fleshy, smooth stalk. This one is just starting with little white flowers and is about 2 1/2 feet tall.
I spotted this last year and wondered what the heck it was. It was around 4-5 feet tall when I think a gardener whacked it down.
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