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08-30-2009, 12:52 PM
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Can you identify this plant?
This is in our background (previous owner planted, I guess) and we're wondering what it is, and if we want to keep it.
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08-30-2009, 04:36 PM
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Might be a Hawthorn or a Firethorn.....is it a tree, bush, shrub?
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08-30-2009, 06:40 PM
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That looks like a mountain ash. Cant tell if it's a tree or shrub though.
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08-30-2009, 09:02 PM
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Up here in the U.P. we have quite a few mountain ash, but when we went downstate last month to the Otterlake area, we saw lots of these trees on the side of the highways.They look like a mountain ash, but not quite. We were gonna "borrow" one to bring back up here! LOL I would guess it is a close relative.....
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08-31-2009, 11:53 AM
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It is a shrub (I guess), and it stands about 5-6' tall. It's not a bushy shrub.
I looked up Mountain Ash and the leaves and berries are definitely similar, but I didn't see any white flowers on it that I recall, and it doesn't look the the picture of a mountain ash tree. Maybe I'll need to take some more pictures of it and the "trunk" area.
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08-31-2009, 08:23 PM
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Kind of hard to tell from that picture, but it could be sumac.  |
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08-31-2009, 08:35 PM
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I also think it's sumac, which grows wild.
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09-01-2009, 05:49 AM
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My guess too, some variety of sumac. |
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09-01-2009, 01:31 PM
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Not sumac. Look at the enlarged picture. Those are berries. Sumac gets clumps of fuzzy little balls, not berries. Those clumps of fuzzy balls make a really nice tea.
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