omg what

[cleolinda]

Hey guys, let's play a game! It's called "What the SHIT Is This THING I Found Growing In Our Camellias?" It's over three feet tall, "make a circle with your thumb and index finger" thick at the bottom of the stem, and it came out of NOWHERE. Seriously, I went outside and it was just THERE, it might have sprung up overnight, I don't even know. What the hell is it?

ETA: Hm. I'm liking pokeweed as an ID. Apparently it's a bitch to kill (like most random plants that spring up out of nowhere)--we've never had it before, though, which means that we are now INFECTED with it. Alas.

Comments

[raynala.livejournal.com]

Audrey II!

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Well we can rule out Audrey.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You don't have to worry until the little faces start popping out.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED MEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[chulacabra.livejournal.com]

Feeeeeeeeeeeeed me Cleo...feed me aaaaaaaaaaaallllllll night long. (with harmonies supplied by the Edwards).

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Triffid. Careful! They spit.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Clearly, Poison Ivy is to blame. Alert Batman.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

I don't have an answer, but you could take or e-mail the photo to your county Extension office (http://www.aces.edu/counties/Jefferson/). A horticulture agent or Master Gardener should be able to identify it. :)

[raynala.livejournal.com]

oh, sure, a serious answer... be helpful, why don't you.

[herdivineshadow]

OMG GIANT BEANSTALK


Whatever you do, do not let the singing harp blab on you.

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

Thus endeth the thread.
Amen, amen.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Can't be! There isn't a little bud with a face.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

That would be AWESOME.

[raynala.livejournal.com]

it's biding its time. >D

[herdivineshadow]

GIANT AWESOME

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

Think of all the adventures her dolls could have on it!

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

No, no. It's going to grow feet. It's Bushroot! :P

[herdivineshadow]

...to be fair, I had been thinking of all the adventures cleolinda could have on it, but your idea works too.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

GOOD GOD. You might need a flame thrower. What the FUCK is going down in Alabama? This is what happens when your backyard starts mainlining CO₂, man.

[willow-25.livejournal.com]

I forget what those are called, but they are nasty and hard to get rid of. On the a-little-bit-positive side (depending on how you look at it) native americans used the berries that will grow on it in the fall (they're red) to make a diuretic tea that they believe had hallucinogenic properties (ie helped them connect to the spirit world).

If only I could remember the name of the damn plant...

[notashamed.livejournal.com]

i think i have one of those growing in front of my patio. I cut it down every year and it GROWS BACK EVERY YEAR.

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

I think it's called a beautyberry bush. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_berry) Here are a couple of image links that may help, but you'd have to wait for late summer to see the fruits:
http://hankinslawrenceimages.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/issai-beautyberry-callicarpa-dichotoma-issai/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jusfi/1386765601/

I grew up in NW Florida, and we had these all over. Fast growing cane sort of plants.

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Did one of the dolls sell one of TLE's ponies for magic beans?

[jasonbeast.livejournal.com]

Chinaberry? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaberry) They grow hella fast and are a bitch to get rid of.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

Whoops, my bad. *shuffles feet*

;)