First bloom of the spring season,neighbors think its maryjane plant!
Jatropha
Jatropha multifidia? Mine haven't leafed out yet. Just showing a little green at the tips. I got them as liners and potted them in ones. Hardly any roots but most of them still have fat trunks. The ones that shrunk I figured were dead so I got rid of them. Hoping to use them in the common area if they ever amount to anything. I love the leaf shape.
Yep I think the leaves are very tropical looking.
I bet in sted of getting you high it will kill you dead...
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ely
Palmbob grows them just south of here and we do not get any frost except every ten years or so. It is not very warm here until September and October, so I suspect that is why they haven't leafed out. Or, perhaps they are just too young, coming out of liners, though they are about two feet tall.
LOL! I bet your right!!!
Growing them california dreamers daturas as well,I heard the kids were smoking the leaves and one did die from it.
I have had mine now 3 years and its growing in a 1 gallon pot,its about 4 ft to 5 ft tall,I think its time to pot up this year
I suppose it is like the caudiciforms, as long as the trunk is fat, the plant is alive, regardless of what it looks like.
I didn't water mine for months and it lived...
It looks like it would root easy
ely
Well I know the spidermites love them during the winter time,and you need to keep them on the dry side in the soil but mist the leaves daily or they will drop like flies!
I water them with the rest of the one gallons, every couple of days. They are planted in a half compost, half perlite mix. Some shrunk after I moved them up from the liners, when I looked for the roots there weren't any. I planted them partially up the trunk to try to stabilize them. Before, they were flopping over all the time. I have never seen this plant, so it is interesting to see what is happening
well all the leaves did fall off of it...but it was late spring before it jumped back into life... and it did it over night.. maybe 2 nights... almost composted it.
ely
I have whiteflies around but no spidermites. No leaves to get eaten yet. I have another plant that has similar leaves but not as fat a trunk. It goes dormant in the winter and has very tiny flowers in big panicles at the terminal ends of the branches. It is about six feet tall now I do not know the name of it. It would not surprise me if it were a jatropha relative.
Yep when the leaves start coming on,you can stand there and watch them grow!!!LOL!
but I don't thin I had bugs on mine.... The name that was giving to me was a coral tree.
ely
I have two of these growing in my front yard. I got them as seedlings and have moved them twice in the past year.
They put out seeds everytime they bloom. The seeds are soooo easy to germinate. You just take one entire seed pod, shove it down into a 6" pot of potting soil and within a week you have germination. Sometimes one seed in that pod will start up and later a second will pop up. I have seen 3 shoot up at once from one pod. I think someone has been walking their dogs and pulling seeds from the tree as they go.
These are very easy to grow and easy to share.
When I just went out to take these pics, I found 3 more seed pods on the ground. Here's some still on the tree. I have a lot of fun growing them.
Molly
:^)))
P.S. Ely, yes, Coral Tree or Coral Plant are the common nickname for these.
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Oohhh...Molly, very pretty!!!
Can't wait until the ones you gave me look like that!! I did plant all 3 of them in the ground. Good to know from TropicMan that I shouldn'v have to dig it up in the fall!!
Thanks!!
Janet
Janet,
You are very welcome and since they are in the ground, they will have the freedom to grow as much as they want.
They have been accused of being very invasive because they do put out the seeds, but hey, with seeds that size, how far can they blow in the wind? They get on the ground, you pick them up.
Simple as that.
:^))))
Palmbob's never did very well, but I have hopes for mine, though the weather is similar. It is only a small case of zone denial.
Chuck, what is your zone?
Molly
Somewhere between 9 and 10, no frost but heavy marine influence so it never gets very hot. Fog now most mornings until late September. When the fog doesn't come then it will get to the mid 80s. Rarely over a hundred. In the five years we have lived here, I do not think there have been a score of days like that. Thirty miles away over the mountains, over a hundred many days in the summer and lots of frost.
Chuck,
May we see a picture of your jatropha? Please?
Molly
I am stuck in the pre-digital technology phase. I will take some, but it will take a while to finish the roll, get it developed and then scan it. I will check and see if there is a random shot of it in stuff I took recently.
Here is a crop of one that I think is a jatropha relative, I did not take any pictures of the sticks in pots a couple of months ago. I guess I should have. Forgot I needed to convert the image from a tiff to a jpg. Color isn't quite right either. Oh, well here is the lookalike.
Oh My Chuck,
You need to get on Ebay and look for a canon A-20. Can be bought for around 50. Digital cameras are such fun.
Thanks for looking up your photo. Actually I was asking for a picture of the one you have, maybe we can help figure why you are not getting the leafing you want.
Just nosing in trying to help. :^)))))
Molly
I will take a few of the yard today, into to the processor tomorrow, back on Wednesday, scan on Wed. night, whoops, poker can't do that, scan Thurs, hardly film at eleven. Yeah, but I am an interchangeable lenses kinda guy, used to lots of megapixels, so I will wait a little longer. I think by the time I do this they will be out, they were showing green last time I watered. Foggy last couple days, temp never got over 68, so it will be a while.
This was sold to me labeled as "Dwarf Jatropha" . It is hard to believe they are in the same family as the leaves are so different. This is a new plant this spring, I had one last year that appeared to die when we had a freak cold spell after some 80 degree days. Fortunately I did not throw the container out because just this week a new shoot emerged from the old roots.
Ardesia,
This one is also a "Jatropha" a buddha belly. The flowers are the same as the multifida, but the leafs are definately different.
Like the Crepe Myrtle, they are diciduous, losing all their leaves in the winter, making you think they died. Keep them relatively dry to avoid root rot and they will be back in the spring.
This one was grown from seed, I got it as a bulb. You can grow them from cuttings, but the cuttings won't have the buddha belly, they will just grow on a straight stick.
Molly
:^)))
I just started some seeds of that one. I soaked them and they put out a root in 24 hrs. Amazing. All five did it. So, hopefully I will get one.
so pretty arn't they
Yes, I am looking forward to seeing it grow.
I have had a Jatropha for almost a year and noticed, for the first time, that there are spines at the base of the leaves. Are they a problem? I overwintered my plant in my greenhouse, lowest temperature was about 40ºF. The leaves drooped, but they didn't drop off. This this the norm?
Ardesia, yours is J. integerrima 'Compacta'.
MollyMC, the Buddha Belly (I've also seen it called a Bottle plant) is J. podagrica.
I like jatrophas. I've got about 4 different species - they are all very interesting and unique plants! My J. integerrima has never set seeds, though. I just acquired another one to see if having two will help them set seed.
Carter, the original one I had was labeled Dwarf Jatropha, that is the one that I thought had died. Do you think perhaps Dwarf and compacta mean the same thingon this plant? The new one I pictured was just labeled Coral Plant but it is the same as the first one so I think it probably is the dwarf/compacta. They get around 3' tall.
When you mentioned you had not had any seeds, I remembered that I had often seen immature seed pods but they always disappeared before they ripened. I started checking the blooming plant each day and soon found 3 seeds. I stapled some tiny
nylon bags over them and waited. Today one of the pods split. There were three chambers each holding a large seed that looked like a beetle. I apologise for the fuzzy picture but you will get the idea.
I will plant these three seeds today and see what happens. There are still 2 "bagged" pods on the plant and I know if I watch it carefully Iwill have more over the summer.
Here are some pics of my Jatropha's
Jan...
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=12&uid=655234&gid=7795440&
I don't know for certain, but I'd bet that "dwarf" and "compacta" are the same. The seeds are easy to germinate. Just start them in something well draining. You smart in 'bagging' the seed pods - they kind of explode when ripe and the three little seeds (you are right when you say the resemble some type of beetle) will scatter like crazy.
I potted up a couple of the seed pods I got from MollyMc in potting soil and set the pot outside in full sun. How long will it be before I see something most likely?? A couple weeks?? I still have two pods left--didn't know soaking would help but I can try that too?!! Bonnie
Great photos Jan - but now I simply have to have a Multifida, I love those leaves.
Little tiny leaves are finally appearing on mine. I wonder if they are going to leaf out this late every year.