Can Anyone Help?
Help Me ID This Plant :)
If it's a tree, it looks like a Barringtonia asiatica in big trouble..
Let me try another picture, these are in actual daylight so it looks much bettrer :)
Another :)
That looks different. It's a cutting off a Croton.
Hi Josh. Your plant may be a juvenile and that makes a good ID difficult. There are some things you can photograph and explain that will really help.
Take the plant out in light shade and try the photos there. Do your best to keep them in perfect focus so depending on the camera you are using that may mean you can't get close unless you have a macro setting.
Here is a list of photos that will be extremely helpful:
1) One of a single leaf blade taken directly from the top. What needs to be clearly seen is all the veins in the leaf. Most people don't know but the number of the primary (the largest) veins, the number and spacing of the interprimary veins (those between the primaries), and the arrangement of the smallest vein is important. Please count all the primary veins on a single side of the leaf and let us know.
Do the same with the bottom of the leaf. Often the primary veins will be sunken or raised on the top but the opposite on the bottom. This is important. Sometimes they will be the same on both sides but that info helps to key out the species.
I can't be certain if this is a Philodendron, an Anthurium or something else. This information will help:
2) Take photos of the petiole that supports a single leaf. Also, describe it. Do you see a "canal" in the top of the petiole? If so, please describe it. With a magnifying glass do you see only a single canal? Does that canal appear to have parallel lines inside? Can you see parallel grooves inside? If no canal, just describe the shape. Is it round, triangular, four sided or another shape? Do you see ridges running along the petiole? If so, where? Is it flat on the top but the bottom side is rounded? These details are important when trying to key out a species.
Look directly at the margin (the edge) the leaf leaf and tell us if you can see a vein running around part of the edge of the leaf. Look at the top of the petiole and tell us if you can see or feel a slight bump. If so, that is likely a geniculum that allows the leaf to rotate to some degree in order to collect light.
Look directly at the base of the petiole. Do you see anything on any petiole that appears like "wings"? Take photos of all of this if you see something.
Now look at the stem. Most people think the stem supports a leaf but the stem is the central axis of the plant. Look right at the point where where the plant comes out of the soil. Take a sharp photo and post it. Do you see what appears to be a "cane" with nodes and internodes on it? A node is a place where a petiole may emerge and often roots as well. The internode is the region between the nodes.
There is much more detail that will help but this is a good start. There are several good folks on Dave's that know how to use this information to come closer to a determination. This could easily be a hybrid bu all this info will help to figure that out.
The suggestion by TropicBreeze could easily be right.
Steve
This message was edited Jun 26, 2010 8:15 AM
Another pic, I'm away from home but this one is a bit clearer than the rest, IDK if it will help :(
Thanks Josh. This plant does not appear to be in a plant family of which I have any knowledge. I am sure someone can give you a good answer and TropicBreeze may have already provided the best one available.
Steve
It's Pseuderanthemum, someone in the ID forum figured it out and that is what it is, I had no idea what it was when I took a cutting of it, I kinda glanced at the name and thought I'd remember but of course I didn't!
Thank you so much for all the help!
We have a native one here, Pseuderanthemum variabile, but it's leaves are quite different.
Looks like some kind of Pseuderanthemum to me, too. I think I saw something similar at Lowe's.
Lowe's is having something called "Shades Of Summer" promotion and they have SEVERAL tropical plants *heliconias, curcumas and some others* I accidentally broke a piece off when I was looking at it and decided I would take that little piece with me and try to root it! So that is where we are now :)
JoshY46013 - While I enjoy trying to root plants from cuttings and whatnot, I hate to be the prude to say that I don't agree with taking the "cutting" from the store and rooting it yourself. That's tantamount to stealing, in my opinion.
I didn't break it intentionally, that portion was already hanging by a thread when I picked the plant up, the bustle finished the stem off. The employees' were more than okay with me taking it. I wasn't going to buy a 20 dollar plant because one of 200 stems on the plant snapped and in my opinion it is senseless to throw the piece in the trash.