Plant/Tree/Bush for Doug

[Dougfish]

Tropical. Don't be bringing that shit.

[Woolly Bugger]

[Woolly Bugger]

Hey Doug , whats this?




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[Michael Toris]

Not Doug, but it looks like Nigella damascena or Love-in-a-Mist

[Woolly Bugger]

nailed it, they volunteered in a side garden, can't figure out how they got there.... looks like they could be prolific...

[Dougfish]

Good job, carpboy.

[ajhock]

Six leaves and about 3 ft tall.  Mixed in with lots of rhodo and laurel on a steep bank.



The leaf at 5 o'clock has a notch.  It did a furtive search on Bing and found nothing. 

[Pansyman]

Magnolia, macrophylia.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=magnolia%20macrophylla&qs=IM&form=QBIR&pq=magnolia%2C%20ma&sc=8-12&sp=5&sk=IM4

[ajhock]

Thanks, I had that as minor guess.  Tell me about the notch in the 5 o'clock leaf and why is there only one layer of leaves-or maybe better- why are there no other branch levels.  My limited understanding is that magnolias are sort of dinosaur, or simple, or a we don't really need to evolve type plants.  It is neat that from reading the Wiki, it jumps into spots were there is all of the sudden light.  This is true to this one.  The hemlocks falling to pieces definitely have poked holes in the canopy.  You can kind of see it in the crappy photo, a smattering a light.  A hemlock or two up slope have succumb and this bugger is making a run in a spot that has been pretty shaded for a long time. Thanks.

[Dougfish]

Might be M. fraseri or M. ashei instead. Are the bases of the leaves prominently lobed? Tough to tell from that pic.

[Yallerhammer]

M. fraseri is by far the most common one in most of western NC.

[Michael Toris]

Might be M. fraseri or M. ashei instead. Are the bases of the leaves prominently lobed? Tough to tell from that pic.

You're prominently lobed

[Dougfish]

Might be M. fraseri or M. ashei instead. Are the bases of the leaves prominently lobed? Tough to tell from that pic.

You're prominently lobed

You checked?    0:0

[ajhock]

I compared those two and the bigger lobes seem to have it.  Magnolia fraseri. Thanks.

http://www.namethatplant.net/gallery_comparison.shtml?compare=leaves%20of%20Magnolia%20species