Shrubs with five-lobed hand shaped leaves
karoliberty OKC zone 7a
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Shrub with fuzzy leaves and spotted bark?
Comments (5)yes, that's it. Amazingly, this is a tree I'm quite familiar with - from a distance. They are in flower right now all over East Tennessee. I've just never been close to a budding branch of one. Very invasive pest. Here's what I found on it: Stem. Twigs and branches stout, glossy gray brown and speckled with numerous white dots (lenticels). No terminal bud. Lateral leaf scars raised, circular, and becoming larger, dark, and sunken. Bark light-to-dark gray, roughened, and becoming slightly fissured. Stem pith chambered or hollow and wood white. Leaves. Opposite, heart-shaped and fuzzy hairy on both surfaces, 6 to 12 inches long and 5 to 9 inches wide. Leaves larger on resprouts, 16 to 20 inches across, with extra tips often extending at vein tips. Petioles rough hairy, 2 to 8 inches long. Flowers. April to May. Covered with showy erect panicles of pale-violet flowers before leaves in early spring, tubular with five unequal lobes. Fragrant. Flower buds fuzzy, linear, and becoming ovoid in summer and persistent on erect stalks over winter. Fruit and seeds. June to April. Terminal clusters of pecan-shaped capsules 1 to 2 inches long and 0.6 to 1 inch wide. Pale green in summer turning to tan in winter and eventually black and persistent into spring. Capsules splitting in half during late winter to release tiny winged seeds. Resembles southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides Walt., and northern catalpa, C. speciosa (Warder) Warder ex Engelm., which have leaves with sparsely hairy upper surfaces and rough hairy lower surfaces and long slender, persistent beans....See MoreShrub white flowers May; orange leaves autumn
Comments (9)i am saying.. since you asked.. lol.. that the version in your pic.. is really ugly .. lol ... and if... after bloom.. next year... you could cut it to the ground.. by the following spring.. you will have a very nicely formed plant .. instead of one that is leaning everywhichway .. unless you prefer it that way.. and if you do.. so be it ... i once posted a slaughtering of this plant .. years ago ... worried that i got a little carried away ... and many peeps chimed in ... that they cut theirs to the ground every season .. but they were in warmer zones than me... so i ignored them.. lol .... mom had one at their house in the 1960's.. and i still have mine, as does she .. i would never be w/o one ... in my memories.. it is extremely choice ... it just needs to be taught a lesson once in a while... lol ... all this said.. in your location.. that seems rather dark [a presumption about summer when leaves are on the other stuff] .. with the competitors... you MIGHT have trouble starting other things .... your plants all grew up together.. forcing something new in there might be a challenge ... or not.. what do i know ... from one winter pic .... ken...See Moretop five edible shrubs
Comments (35)What about this one? Have no clue, but moving and looking for edibles... E3102 Juneberry, Saskatoon Serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia Low water requirements, grows as high as 10,000 feet. A deciduous shrub that seldom exceeds 15 feet in height and occasionally suckering to form a slowly spreading clump. An easily grown plant, it prefers a rich loamy soil and thrives in any soil that is not too dry or water-logged. The largest yields, and best quality fruits, are produced when the plant is grown in a sunny position, though it should also do reasonably well in semi-shade. The plants are fairly lime tolerant and they will also grow well in heavy clay soils. They are very cold-hardy and will tolerate temperatures down to at least -20�c and probably much lower. Flowers in Early Spring, these white flowers are produced before the plants come into leaf, and are usually produced so abundantly that the whole plant turns white. They look particularly beautiful at this time. By late June, or more commonly early to mid July, the plants will usually be carrying large crops of fruits. These fruits are about 15mm in diameter, they are soft, sweet and juicy with a taste that reminds us of apples. Small enough to be eaten without problems, though they can add a slightly bitter almond-like flavour to the fruit if they are crushed whilst eating. The fruit can also be cooked in pies etc., when dried it is quite sweet and can be used in the same ways as raisins....See MoreBlack Krim leaves rolling up into cylinder shape
Comments (7)Leaf rolling is a very common occurrance, and some varieties are worse than others. Usually it happens (for me) when there is a lot of rain and the soil stays soggy for too long. Its nothing to worry about. Leaf curl virus affects the top leaves, stunts them, discolors them and causes upward cupping. You potatoleaf Black Krim is almost certainly a stray seed. It is a fairly common thing. I have gotten some very nice "extra" varieties from stray seed, some of which were distinctive enough to identify. May I ask where you bought your seed from. Spontaneous mutation from RL to PL is so rare as to in far last place as the cause (and plant size would not be affected), and crossed seed would take two generations to show up meaning that the seed grower would have had to plant seeds from a hybrid plant that probably did not look like Black Krim. If you do want to breed a PL Black Krim-like tomato I would cross Japanese Black Trifele (PL) with Black Krim and then select out the PL plants in the second generation, and select for flavor from those plants....See Morekaroliberty OKC zone 7a
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