Your plant is an Alocasia. Here is a link that might be useful: African Mask

OK I got a Don Juan! YAY! I wanted one! Thank you for the help! Now as for the other. You guys are getting closer, I think. But Im not sure those are it tho. Heres why...I read up R. bracteata,Rosa multiflora, and rosa laevigata. I read about Cherokee Rose and it states that they dont produce alot of seed. This plant is COVERED in hips and inside are 15-20 seeds. And that it is heavily scented. This one is not. It has a very slight scent. And the leaves are too large. As for R. bracteata- "Although each flower of R. bracteata contain hundreds of stamens, the pollen is only slightly potent. This combined with the fact that the Macartney rose doesnÂt accept foreign pollen readily explain the absence of hips found on the plants. R. bracteata is a diploid with 2 sets of 7 chromosomes (2n=14) or a total of 14 chromosomes." http://www.olyrose.org/Rosebracteata.htm And Rosa multiflora blooms cluster. These do not. The blooms themselfs are about 3 inches across. This rose is very invasive. Its in all in the ditches along the roads here. And it loves! water because we get standing water here and theres always a good 6 inch to a foot of water in the ditches. I just went and cut a piece off so I could get better pics.This in an outer most piece. I wasnt brave enough to stick my arm in the thicket! The thorns in these pics dont do it any justice at all! The main stems are just crowded with massive thorns. Heres the leaves The thorns the buds...they form wrinkled.Almost like they are puckering up. The flowers closed every night. I dont know if they open come morning. But the petals on this one came off in my fingers when I took them away from this pic. The center Now here you can see the size of the buds to the leaves. Large buds compared to the leaves. Hope this helps. I went in search after reading the suggestions but found myself up in arms again! I would love to grow this in my own yard but Im worried being as Im seeing them growing wild everywhere.

horster, thanks much, that sure does look a lot like BI especially the one in the bg of your photo with dimples. Mine could be a slight variation of that. I can read up on that, don't know if people have grown it deliberately in the past or what, at least heard of it. Also have the good old senior moment, the kind with 5 leaves, pretty much on top of that, too. Virginia creeper? Very common stuff that. What the heck don't I have? Thistles for one, probably others. Dug them all out. Those darn ditch lilies are a pest, too, and I'm finding seedlings I'm sure is that, at least not any of my regular daylilies, am pulling that, but don't know how I'll ever be rid of that stuff either. This year I'm cutting off the pods, but there will be more anyway.

Well...I appreciate all your responses, and I'm going to assume it's a common garter snake...for my OWN peace of mind...LOL I believe he was so grumpy because of the flash from the camera...it probably scared the bejeezus out of'm. Plus...I'm wondering if it isn't the onset of hibernation time. I mean, afterall, he WAS way down under some pretty hard, clay covered by about 4" of mulch. He was probably sleeping...or getting his last full meal of night crawlers when I uncovered him. *I'm in SE PA, not Florida at the moment. He's gone now and I don't know where...hehehe...but I covered the hole back up with the mulch. BTW: When I let Picture it! automatically tweak the color and brightness levels, the colors of the snake were changed a bit. Here are two pics showing actual color...