A couple yooper whatzits I can't identify yet *SOLVED*

Jeff · September 20, 2006, 01:07:57 PM

I just love looking at plants and trees and near the cabin there is an abundance of different plants. Here are a couple growing right in the woods near the cabin I have yet to identify. The first is some sort of a shrub.

The second is a vine that grows up and among the Tag Alders.

SwampDonkey · September 20, 2006, 03:01:21 PM

The first one is a dogwood with parallel leaf venation, either red osier (has red stems - remember the wreath making thread?) or round leafed dogwood. Alternate leafed dogwood is a tall erect shrub with wide spreading crown. Those leaves are opposite, so rules that out. And the second one is a species of climatus that I often find in alder thickets or edges of wetlands with sparse tree canopy, often along abandoned beaver ponds, small streams or pasture edges. It's hard stuff to walk through at times.

SwampDonkey · September 20, 2006, 03:06:11 PM

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Jeff · October 23, 2006, 11:09:41 PM

I wanted to update this thread with a new photo now that the climatus to gone to seed.

beenthere · October 23, 2006, 11:21:09 PM

Sure that ain't a relative of the Furby clan, or a real Furby :

???

Furby · October 23, 2006, 11:37:51 PM

I thought it looked a bit more like a sprucebunny myself. ;)

sprucebunny · October 24, 2006, 12:05:26 AM

That's scary looking

Sprucebunnies are timid creatures and stay away from scary looking plants

slowzuki · October 25, 2006, 08:22:55 AM

We've got that vine a lot of places on my parents property. If it gets up into the canopy in favourable conditions it will kill off the host tree. The stems will become woody and have bark once they are several years old. The largest I have seen was about 2" diameter.

As a kid we used to weave it into rope, and we used to climb the ones that had got woody.

Tom · October 25, 2006, 10:33:15 AM

I've seen National Geographic pictures of animals with faces that look like that. Are you sure this is vegetable?

crtreedude · October 25, 2006, 11:43:43 AM

I have seen pictures of Furby - the resemblence is striking.

Except, since it is white, it must be an uncle or a grandfather...

Tom · October 25, 2006, 12:41:42 PM

beenthere · October 25, 2006, 01:00:41 PM

That be good, Tom :D :D

crtreedude · October 25, 2006, 04:16:05 PM

Looks like he caught the red eye...

Furby · October 25, 2006, 09:39:27 PM

Quote from: crtreedude on October 25, 2006, 11:43:43 AM
I have seen pictures of Furby - the resemblence is striking.

Except, since it is white, it must be an uncle or a grandfather...

You wouldn't belive how white my hair is some days. :-\

OneWithWood · October 27, 2006, 12:54:14 PM

Linnea says it is some sort of native to the UP clamatis - whatever that is ???

SwampDonkey · October 27, 2006, 04:25:43 PM

People plant all kinds of horticultural varieties here. They have lavender, rose and yellow ones with great big blooms, bigger than the wild ones. Some have a perrenial woody stem and some come off the root each year.

Jeff · October 27, 2006, 09:25:01 PM

Here is another yooper whatzit that I dont know. I took a photo in the summer, then another photo the day before I came home. It was just great this year to follow and experience the seasonal changes so closely this year.

SwampDonkey · October 28, 2006, 07:08:29 AM

Looks like a species of aster Jeff. We have some lavender colored ones here and I may have seen white ones also. Mostly lavender though. In late summer/early fall the bumble bees will cling to those overnight like they are frozen in time. Some people have the fall aster in their garden and sometimes they are loaded with bumble bees in October.