Is it a tree or ????

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indnangl Antioch, IL Sep 19, 2007

This was included in a plant set that I got last year. It just keeps growing. Any ideas on what it is?
Thank you all.

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Sep 19, 2007

Possibly a Schefflera: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/13814/

Can you post a close up photo of the top of the tree?

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 20, 2007

I don't think it's a Schefflera, not sure what it is though.

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Sep 20, 2007

Sorta looks like a Plumeria too ... hard to tell from that photo. Maybe Indnangl will post a close up of the plant from the top looking down.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 20, 2007

Doesn't look like Plumeria either...I wish I had some ideas on what it was though! It looks familiar, I think it's something that's commonly grown as a houseplant, I just can't put my finger on what it is. I'm sure as soon as someone says what it is I'll smack myself!

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Sep 20, 2007

:) I know ... it looks soo very familiar ... just can't place it! LOL. Maybe tomorrow I will go out and look around all of my plants, I might just have it and that's why it looks so familiar to me!

hee hee ... Now, please don't smack yourself Ecrane3! I know how you feel though .... so many times I've done that and when it finally is revealed I just have to say, Duh! Usually it is so easy! The older I get the more my memory escapes me!

Thought it sorta looked like Arabica ... http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/18059/
but don't think that's it either.

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Nan SW, WI(Zone 4b) Sep 20, 2007

It looks like that 'other' Ardisia that's being commonly sold recently.
I think it might be called A. elliptica?

I got one a while back, it bloomed this summer and is now bearing little fruits.

Don't give/trade one to anyone in Hawaii....it's a nasty invasive plant there.

A nice houseplant, though!

Someone was giving one away on the HP forum a couple of days ago.

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Sep 20, 2007

I think Nan got it! I knew it looked familiar. Here's the link to PF for Ardisia:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53496/


Here's a link to photo's of the one in Hawaii: http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/ardisia_elliptica.htm

And: a close up of some of the leaves: http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/ardisia_crenata.htm

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