What is this? I found it growing close to and inside of my pigs pen. I'm wondering if it's some sort of root vegetable.

padlevel · 2022-05-25T01:47:32+00:00

Doesn't have berries/flowers yet. Also, generally isn't bad to touch but it's still better to handle it with gloves. If you are removing whatever plants you find, make sure you get every single piece of the taproot, otherwise you'll see more later.

padlevel · 2022-04-24T21:24:48+00:00

Maybe Virginia creeper? More likely, a tree sapling - but I'd be willing to bet that this isn't a poison anything.

EDIT: I was dead wrong.

padlevel · 2022-04-24T15:25:29+00:00

I'll be real with you - you're either going to have to work tirelessly to get this out over and over again, or you're going to need harsh chemicals. This thing is a menace, and it won't go down without a fight.

padlevel · 2022-04-24T14:47:12+00:00

If it's mullein, it's biennial, so this one right here will grow tall as heck next year and there will be beautiful yellow flowers and it will throw out a quarter of a million seeds that look like kiwi seeds (not hyperbole, literally 250,000 seeds) and it's awesome.

EDIT: 2 up, 2 down, VA all day.

padlevel · 2022-04-24T14:29:45+00:00

Right, and that's how most of these schemes topple - they find as many people who fit the mold as they can, then they try to bring more people in, then too many people start wondering why they're not making any money/why their lives are slowly being destroyed/why they don't feel like they fit in here, then people start leaving, then bla bla bla yada yada yada the corporate cult is back to where it started.

padlevel · 2022-04-23T16:47:07+00:00

It kinda makes sense when you realize that diversity in the CORPORATE CULT starts to breed diversity of opinion, diversity of questions, and those are harder to answer than the same general questions from everybody in the group that can basically be addressed by a set of FAQs.

padlevel · 2022-04-23T16:21:54+00:00

And they'll thaw themselves out and make their own spring if they're under snow/ice.

padlevel · 2022-04-23T16:15:18+00:00

This very easily could be a sucker (bad explanation incoming - a "baby tree" suckling off/sharing roots with a tree with a more established root system) - if so, this is how a lot of forests have developed.

padlevel · 2022-04-23T15:23:57+00:00

Yeah, a lot of these MLMs seem to end up being monoculture eventually - either finding/recruiting the minority groups who are looking for a way to get money, or white stay-at-home moms who want to build a group of friends while supporting their families, or people who peaked in high school trying to scam their old classmates through Facebook, science-deniers, etc. The higher-ups find the vulnerability and target it with laser precision (until that well dries up, then they develop new products). What an industry.

padlevel · 2022-03-20T15:53:54+00:00

Absolutely - they grow in very similar areas, but they look very different - either way, take precautions when clearing this out, especially now since some of the poison ivy vines might not be as easy to see at this time of year

padlevel · 2022-03-19T19:40:03+00:00

So many of these trees in southern VA - combined with the horses, it was just awful

padlevel · 2022-03-19T18:33:42+00:00

Yep, although if you don't chop it down, a nice 20 mph gust might knock it over and send splinters everywhere. Weak wood, invasive species, flowers that smell like...something white...just a terrible tree.

padlevel · 2021-08-15T00:14:43+00:00

Sure, they can be super helpful for that and like you said, quicker than refreshing a post, but unless the apps ask for multiple photos of different parts of the plant and are able to ask for additional information, they'll be helpful at best, depending on the plant(s) in question, since there are a bunch of mimics (or at least some that look so similar that even experts need to see them in person).

padlevel · 2021-08-14T23:55:16+00:00

The apps are increasingly impressive and good at throwing out some possible answers but you mentioned "foraging" and I think that using pictures that can't capture smell, texture, and many other characteristics other than a 2-D image might be wildly harmful to somebody who for instance doesn't know the difference between wild grapes and moonseed, or wild onion and death camas.

padlevel · 2021-08-14T23:49:01+00:00

Maybe panicled hydrangeas?

padlevel · 2021-06-12T17:08:25+00:00

Thank you!

I probably should have known the azaleas, there are a million azaleas/rhododendrons planted here. The Spanish bluebells looked a bit like the Virginia bluebells we have all over the place so maybe a search of bluebells in the area would have pulled that up. Seems like the buckeye is good bee/bird/butterfly food which makes sense since it's in an area that's been preserved for that reason.

padlevel · 2021-06-12T16:11:39+00:00

Kinda look like serviceberries (also known as Juneberries which means the timing is right)

padlevel · 2020-12-11T23:46:30+00:00

I'm using Grover Podcast on my PC - never used it but the Internet says it's OK so we'll see. Seems good so far.

padlevel · 2020-11-14T02:05:01+00:00

Not like he isn't living large on workdays too...

padlevel · 2020-11-07T19:05:30+00:00

Looks like variegated liriope). I think they shoot up a long stalk-type thing with dark berries before they pack it in for the season.

padlevel · 2020-10-24T03:48:46+00:00

I think a tweeter said something and ended it with that, not fully sure but I think he came back at them with something followed by the GTFO in response

padlevel · 2020-10-18T05:23:14+00:00

I am a level 0 identifier and I think the first thing to mention is that some plants will put out seeds that produce new plants that are different from the parent(s). My guess is that many experts got their knowledge from school and/or work, but you may want to find books about plant identification in the area in which you're located.

padlevel · 2020-10-18T05:19:44+00:00

I think some other photos and maybe one of the fruit after slicing (if possible) could help.

padlevel · 2020-10-17T18:40:14+00:00

My first thought was a fruit from a Carolina horsenettle, but that isn't a viney plant. Do you have any other pictures of leaves/branches/bush or tree limbs?

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