This plant/tree was given to us. We have no idea what it is? help

moonflower

The leaf looks like a poinsetta.

My first thought is poinsetta. Break off a leaf at the bottom and if it has a milky sap it is a poinsetta. If it is a moon flower it will climb. Putting it next to a fence would be good.

not all moon flowers climb--- it will get a white candle like flower that will open big time -- watch out for bumbles they love them

That is sacred Datura, or Jimson weed. In Abilene Texas they are commonly called Moonflower although the real moon flower is a night blooming white Morning glory relative.

Sacred Detura was made famous by the artist, Georgia O'Keef.

It is a xeric plant but does better with a bit more water. It has beautiful large white blooms from mid summer through Autumn. It reseeds agresively and is root hardy at least to zone 7.

Yes, it looks like our moon flowers. Pretty large white flowers. I am not sure if it seed itself or regrows from the roots next year. Maybe both. At the end of the season they will have big balls filled with seeds. We have replanted the seeds in the past. The plant over time will get real large. For us, sometimes too large. It pulls up pretty easily.

Ditto, and it is VERY hardy. A show stopper.

Beautiful plant, have always wanted one. Congratulations!

Tried looking at pics of all flowers mentioned and I'd say poinsetta.

Tulip tree?

Thank you all! It is a good start! Most of my property is partial sun. Will it thrive in only part sun?

If it is moonflower (datura), bear in mind that though the flowers are very beautiful, it is EXTREMELY poisonous.

Take the picture to a tree nursery or look up tree leaf shapes on the Internet to find a match !

Moon flower for sure :)

My first thought was Jimsonweed. If that's what it is, you want to destroy it because it's a very, very dangerous hallucinogen. Plus it's really nasty if it gets out on your property. It can get to 5 or 6 feet tall and even wider and is full of nasty thorns and big, prickly seed pods. It doesn't look like pictures of moonflowers but I've never had one of those so don't really know. It also does look rather like a poinsettia. As is mentioned in a previous post, if it's a poinsettia it will have a milky, sticky sap. While we tend to think of poinsettias as the plants we buy in December, I've seen them as pretty good-sized bushes in Haiti. And when I've kept and planted them outside, they can grow to be pretty tall and leggy. So I'd say keep it for a while, water it, and see what it turns out to be.