Anyone know what this is?
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Betty Brady on Aug 14, 2013I'm sorry the picture is not sharp. I will try to get one that is better.Helpful Reply
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Linda Boyce-Futch on Aug 14, 2013don't know, but check the leaves on your neighbors treeHelpful Reply
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Betty Brady on Aug 15, 2013Linda, I looked at pictures online and at my neighbor's tree. The leaves do not look like these. What I am thinking is it may be hogweed.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Aug 15, 2013You will want to be very cautious if you think it may be hogweed. But I thought those leaves were much larger.Helpful Reply
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Betty Brady on Aug 15, 2013Douglas, when hogweed is first growing are the leaves as large as the ones I saw on an earlier post? If so, then maybe it is not hogweed. The leaves are not gigantic, but I've got to tell you they spooked me when I saw them growing in my garden. Never have seen a plant like this before.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Aug 16, 2013I'm not really sure, Betty, as, fortunately I have never encountered it growing myself. Perhaps the best thing to do is to check in with your local extension office. You may be able to send them a photo, or you may need to take a cutting (wear gloves when you do) from the plant and take it in in a sealed plastic bag. You're about as far away from me as it is possible to be and still be in the continental US, so you have plants I am completely unfamiliar with.Helpful Reply
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Judy Grecco on Aug 16, 2013It looks a bit like Queen of the Nile that has a pink plume flower.Helpful Reply
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Leona G on Aug 16, 2013Definitely not walnut. Any gum or oak trees in the area?Helpful Reply
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Sharon B on Aug 16, 2013It looks like okra. Someone sent me seeds once that was supposed to be hibiscus but it looked like this plant and had yellow blooms. I still don't know what kind of plant it was.Helpful Reply
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Pamela Dyer on Aug 16, 2013Looks like an Oak Tree starting. That is Oak leaves by looking at the pic but the pic is a little fuzzy!Helpful Reply
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DOT MCCORK on Aug 16, 2013Looks like baby oak tree....probably from an acorn a squirrel or bird scattered.Helpful Reply
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Anna Marie Gustafson on Aug 16, 2013maybe cow parsnip-sometimes confused with hogweed...Helpful Reply
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April E on Aug 16, 2013looks like a oak to me I have squrills planting acorns all the time and that what they look like when they come upHelpful Reply
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Deborah Ledet Terrell on Aug 16, 2013My first thought was oak also, but gum is another good guess. We have them popping up everywhere. The gum root goes REALLY deep.Helpful Reply
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Peggy Mason on Aug 16, 2013It looks like my Split-Leafed Maple.Helpful Reply
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Sondra on Aug 16, 2013I agree with those who said Oak.Helpful Reply
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Kathy C on Aug 16, 2013Squirrels are great little gardeners, aren't they? I have little oaks everywhere!Helpful Reply
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Pickett on Aug 16, 2013I don't think it is any kind of tree. I had one of these come up voluntarily in my garden, so I got an up close look. The "stem" is green. Mine grew to be over 6 feet tall in 3 or 4 weeks, then I pulled it up. I don't know what it is, though.Helpful Reply
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Betty Brady on Aug 16, 2013Thanks everyone. I do have lots of resident squirrels. I was just hoping it was not Hogweed. There are lots of different trees around here. Guess I will just have to take it out when I remove the lilacs.Helpful Reply
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Charlotte Kent on Aug 17, 2013looks like oak.Helpful Reply
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim on Aug 17, 2013I have oak trees "volunteer" all over my yard....and the stem is very strong and almost "woody" from the beginning. If this has green all the way up I'd sadly say its probably a weed. I have similar ones that can get pretty tall if I let them. BUT the saddest thing is taking out the poor lilacs..one of my fav flowers even they give us so little I still love that early spring little bit of purple joy!Helpful Reply
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Reba Callaway on Aug 17, 2013HACKBERRY maybeHelpful Reply
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Lgsmith on Aug 17, 2013Not any oak like we have down south. I also think it's a weed. Leaves look similar to hog weed(yuck, very bad weed).Helpful Reply
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Rebecca Duff on Aug 18, 2013Looks like the starting of a Pin Oak..however, it also looks like a weed...It is really weird the way I have things pop up in my garden that I see NO where around! This may be the case.Helpful Reply
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Pickett on Aug 18, 2013I am not familiar with "Hog weed...probably a good thing. Can anyone send a photo of it and tell me why it's so bad?Helpful Reply
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Betty Brady on Aug 18, 2013Thanks everyone! I'm not intending to totally take out all the lilac. It simply has taken over too much of the garden area. The previous owners must have put it in and it is in the area where our main water meter is.Helpful Reply
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Betty Brady on Aug 19, 2013As I was pondering what this could be I thought of the trees around my neighborhood. My next door neighbor has a hardy type of fig tree that his mother sent to him from New York state. Leaf identification sites show the type of leaf I am seeing as a type of fig. Does this make sense to anyone here?Helpful Reply
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Pickett on Aug 20, 2013Wow!!! Thanks so much for that reference!Helpful Reply
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Carmen Nemrac on Sep 11, 2013Fig tree, for me.Helpful Reply
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