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The Plant/Tree Spotting Thread
« on: April 12, 2020, 11:31:06 pm »
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just posting stuff i see. feel free to join in.

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Re: The Plant/Tree Spotting Thread
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2020, 11:51:20 pm »
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a walk around a local "forest", taking photos w/ google lens for tree/plant identification.



peach palm, edible, can propagate from seed or suckers:





rosary pea, evil, insanely lethal, 1 seed can kill a human:





zombie palm.. that's cool:





gomortega, if so: produces a large yellow sweet fruit:





psychotria nervosa, florida "wild coffee" <-- but not coffee, gives you headaches + no caffeine:





eagle fern .. hundreds or thousands of these in one spot, looks awesome .. here's just one:





coccothrinax miraguama. this has TONS of bees on it. was nuts. apparently this is going to be a big palm tree:





quercas incana. apparently this is going to be a big oak tree:





nageia nagi aka asian bayberry: (edible oils from berries/leaves potentially)





persian silk tree. this one was epic, felt like silk!!!!





seagrape:





african oil palm. the principal source of "palm oil", cool !





golden thryallis, intense yellow flowers from spring to frost:





manchineel aka "little apple of death" .. god damn. toxic as fuck fruit:

When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump





strangler fig .. uh the info about strangler figs is kinda nuts.





devil's ivy: