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Vine with Orange pod /red seeds...

16 years ago

My 80 year old father lives in Mulberry, Florida (btwn Tampa and Orland), was on a golf course last week and when he went in the brush to pick up a ball he found this orange seed pod or fruit growing on a vine on the ground. Many had already opened up and it looked as if the birds had eaten the seeds. He took one home and put it on the counter and it opened by itself to reveal red juicy seeds.

We have been searching the internet for him trying to identify this plant. Can anyone help? I have a picture but have not figured a way to post it here.

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kayjones

16 years ago

It sounds like Balsam Pear vine. Check the link below for pictures and information.

Here is a link that might be useful: Balsam Pear

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Comments (12)

razorback33
16 years ago
Have you looked at the Coral honeysuckle vine?
It has Orange red berries, don't know about the seed.
Rb

Here is a link that might be useful: Lonicera sempervirens
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As stated above, extension.missouri.edu says: Although other milkweeds contain a milky latex sap, honeyvine milkweed does not. So maybe break off a few pieces and test it for that? I'm pretty sure unless you spray it, it'll be back. If so, watch for the blooms - if they are small and white in bunches and smell great, I'll bet you have honeyvine. Google for images of honeyvine, maybe it'll jog somebody's memory of what was on the fence earlier this year. Not sure why they are getting wilty unless they're dry or been poisoned or are being eaten by something or it's fall or something. Mine are still okay. I haven't paid attention to the pods before, so not sure how long into the season they remain intact before letting the seed go, but I would think the seed would be best mature in a more dry pod than a green one. Honeyvine is often confused with bindweed based on the appearance of the vine and leaves, but I don't think it makes pods like that - bindweed is in the morning glory family and the flowers of bindweed are morning-gloryesque; from what I'm reading they make pods like morning glory with 4 seeds or so, not the milkweed pods this one is producing. But I totally understand the confusion, I have them both and thought all I had was bindweed until this one caught my attention with the scent.
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lpokas
Original Author
16 years ago
Balsam Pear Vine is exactly what it is. My dad's picture is almost identifcal to the one you reference.

Mystery solved -- thank you!!!

Happy Thanksgiving.
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duenoeilleen
9 years ago
Is this fruit?

I am am looking for few seeds of this vine.
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wantonamara Z8 CenTex
9 years ago
"Invasive and indestructible."- Are you sure you want to plant this one?
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duenoeilleen
9 years ago
It is not invasive; regardless we have the way to keep it under control. I understand that it atract birds.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I was just quoting Dave's Gardens. I read the reviews on Dave's Garden and I hope you are not in Florida because EVERY (and I mean every) review from Florida was a negative. I do not know this plant but anytime they say that a vine is a"ggressive AND in destructible" and seeds are favored by birds , I start fearing for all the land that this birds are going to poop on after leaving your yard.. It is not only your land that you need to be concerned for.

Thomas Jeferson grew them at monticello, but there it would be an annual and maybe more chancy in its germination.

It is from Africa so it is NOT a native.
WoodsTea 6a MO
9 years ago
Is it perhaps Momorida charantia rather than M. balsamica? BONAP shows M. charantia with a wider distribution in Florida. Both are non-native.
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Jan Wanczyk
8 years ago
Are u still looking for seeds?
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monicaalter6221957
5 years ago
slices comes almost two years later three years later but my comment is I'm from Miami Florida after Andrew this stuff got on me underneath my arm and created a fungus in my skin and I still have it to this year cuz I just found out it's a fungus and no it's not native to America it's just like Kudzu it got introduced and it's a pest
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sonni1
5 years ago
I don't know much about this plant, but I've seen a few on my lot in Florida. I pull them out.
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HU-572801026
4 years ago
I found one in my back yard on a vine and looked it up and it said the seeds are poisonous once the outside turns orange, from green. That’s what I found anyway. Good luck
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