Let's play "Stump the Donkey".

[DanG]

OK SwampDonkey, you're pretty good at looking stuff up.  What would you say this juvenile tree is.  Keep in mind that it is just putting on it's spring growth, with lots of new leaves and shoots. ;D




This tree is just now making a comeback in my area, after being all but wiped out by a severe freeze in 1963.  I have fond memories of climbing them when I was a child.  Think medicinal.

[Norm]

Camphor?

[DanG]

Camphor it is, for shore! 8)  I musta made that too easy. ??? :   Not to worry though, there's more.




Not to make all you Northern types jealous, but all of these were taken in my yard, yesterday. ;D ;)

[Tom]

In 1973 I was heating with wood and had no idea what camphor was.  The boys and I found a huge camphor log in the woods that someone had discarded.  I lit into it with my chainsaw and made firewood out of it.  I noticed a distint odor right away. :D

Me and the boys stacked that stuff in the carport and when I returned from work the following mondy the whole neighborhood smelled like Vicks Vapor rub.    We burned it anyway. :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

I like this thread and especially the title. 'Stump the Donkey' :D :D

Ah another introduced plant from Asia. The early shoots give away the flower color, like the roses do. They also put camphor oil in the original Noxema.

I'm not familiar with the tree Dang, so would'a been awhile to ID. My North American medicinal plant book doesn't list it. ;)

[DanG]

Aaaahhh, there you are, SD.   The second pic is not Camphor, but a totally different plant.  I have a string of'em all ready for you. When one is figured out, I'll post another. ;D

Y'all feel free to join in. Figure one out or post one of your own. I'd like to keep it to one plant at a time, though, if we can. :

[Roxie]

Flowering plum?   ???

[SwampDonkey]

Dang,

My previous post wasn't a guess for the second post. ;)

Now let me take a stab at it here.....

Looks like cherry to me, or something in the Prunus genus. Long slender stem with flowers on a short shoot.

[sprucebunny]

I'd guess crabapple but they probly don't grow down there.

[asy]

Must say, I agree with the Plum guesses.

I'd go one further and guess Angelina plum, since it has a red calyx...

Go on, tell us!

asy :D

[tnlogger]

sorta looks like dogwood to me as they are in bloom. but i cant see to good so i might be wrong ;D

[DanG]

Yep tnlogger......you're wrong. ;D :D :D  Sorry, I just couldn't hep myself. :

It ain't a plum, either.  I had to cut down the plum, 'cause it will try to cross-pollinate with this one, making the [??] very small.    :P

[Roxie]

Do you have PEACH trees blooming already! ???   

[DanG]

Yuppers, we do.  And that's what that is! 8) 8)  Yer a winner!  Too bad there ain't no prizes. :D :D

Next one is easy.  Male and female blooms on the same branch.

[Riles]

Loblolly Bay.

[SwampDonkey]

Virginia Stewartia Stewartia malacodendron

[asy]

Gosh, that looks rather like a cecil brunner rose...

asy :D

[Riles]

Oooh, that's sneaky. I just assumed it was a tree, even though I thought the leaves looked like roses. Now that you mention it, I can see the thorns.

[Roxie]

Blackberry ???

[DanG]

Awww c'mon now.  SD you're gonna hafta translate that for me. ??? :P

The rest of you are on the trail. This thing is growing, unchecked in the thicket to the south of my shop.  This particular branch is hanging over the old truck that serves as a depository for my scrap iron.  The upper reaches of it are probably 60 feet up in the pines.  I thought somebody would get this one in a matter of minutes. ???

[tnlogger]

 camellia according to google this is what SD called it  :D
me i'm lost lol

[DanG]

Nawp, it ain't no Camellia.  The blossom does look similar, though...single petals and all.

Don't make me hafta tell ya what state claim's this as it's State Flower! >:(

[Tom]

I know!!   I know!!       ;D

[DanG]

I knew you knew all along, Tom.  Why don't you just go on and tell the pore things, so I can get on with the rest of the tour? ;D  The next one might even stump YOU!  Well, probbly not, but I might have to post an update to clarify it. :

[Tom]

Let me give a hint.

It's a wild single rose named after the Cherokee indians. ;D