We gift each other our small garden produce, I was just gifted this and she said it's "a cucumber, but it's not ripe yet". This looks nothing like the cucumbers I'm used to, and they're eaten mostly green. Tapping on it, it sounds like a gourd (like there's a hollow inside).

Any ideas what are these? I'm guessing it will pair well with the sponge gourd and okra they've given.

Energetic sidewalk growing plant! Maybe dandelion? Maybe something else! I worried it might be mint escaped but it is not.

I'm pretty sure this is a tomato that escaped confinement from last year! Guess the tomatoes don't need me to help them, I should just scatter their seeds and let them do their own thing lol!

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/38568460

I've been asked to help ID this plant.

Can anyone ID this fruit? It's a #native #Amazon #rainforest #tree growing in the region of Badass Fruiterrarist Land in far western #Amazonia near Sumaco National Park. We're confident that it's a #Solanum species, but which one? The #fruit is like something between Solanum betaceum (tree tomato) and Solanum quitoense (lulo/naranjilla), and it grows on a narrow but fairly tall tree at the edge of the forest (next to the road).

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I am not OP; I am cross-posting for visibility.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47649355

I recently moved to a house with a rather overgrown fig. Over winter I pruned it back to a manageable size and since then it's regrown a lot of branches and new figs. Some leaves are 3 lobes and some are 5. The ripest fig is getting purple on the bottom and is quite fat. If the fig fly didn't get it first (I have it bagged now) I think it should be ready in a week or two. I don't know a thing about the varieties except the names, not what their trees look like. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area so a very mild climate. Any help, thanks!

The bark

The bark up close

The leafs

A leaf up close

The tree isn't really flowering right now but here's one of the buds

If anyone knows anything, I'd love to know. Thank you in advance for your time.

I planted something here, but forgot. I should have labeled them, but also forgot. Maybe it's just something that grows in the yard! Also fine.

The tomatoes were labeled! I know where those are, haha!

Month later pictures added! I recognise it but no idea what its called and Plantnet didn’t find it

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45800580

Little sprout

Coming up in my garden right next to some forest (primarily oak mixed with beech, birch, maple) in southwest Sweden. Last year i dug the area out and removed (most) roots. Not much came up but this little sprout. I suppose it could be roots reaching in from the adjacent forest.

I'm trying to identify this Corning Ware pattern, i was thinking tulips but the CW tulip patterns are much different.

Please help.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31354476

Found on the ground in the forest near Sumaco National Park, Ecuador. Probably fell unripe, as it was hard and there were no other fruits like this on the ground in the area. Anyone have any ideas what it could be?

EDIT: I have inquired about the inside of the fruit, and even as the outside was still green and hard, the inside was reportedly brown and mushy with no distinguishing features.

EDIT again: Upon further inquiry, I have found out that the inside looked more like solid segments than the goop of a passionfruit.

It grew on its own, got three more like this one.

Google said wild lettuce, if so would that be edible? It has pricks all over.

Central VA, working on identifying plants in my neighborhood.

• 4-5 feet tall
• Long leaves w/ ~~smooth~~ lots of tiny points along the edges
• Red, slightly elongated fruit

EDIT: Originally, I thought the leaves were smooth around the edges, but upon closer inspection, there are tiny little points along the edges.

EDIT 2: Based on the bot's suggestion and this photo on plantnet.org, it looks like this one is also aucuba japonica (Wikipedia). The difference in coloring of the leaves threw me off.

Central VA, and I believe this particular species is fairly common in my neighborhood. I've tried searching the internet, but the top results are blog articles with scant imagery such as this article on plantvirginianatives.org.

Secondary question: Note the yellow splotches on the leaves—other plants of the same species in my neighborhood also have the yellow splotches—are they merely seasonal or could they indicate an issue w/ the health of the plant?

EDIT: Looks like aucuba japonica (Wikipedia), and apparently the yellow splotches are a feature, not a bug, known as variegation.

Apparently grows very tall, I saw adults a hundred feet tall with tiny silver leaves growing on small branches sporadically on the trunk.

"Calijito" in quechua is what a local told me.

I think this one is typical from Australia/Victoria area.

I remember going into the Botanic gardens and getting a seed that was about the size of a big grape, putting to the ground and holding no hope.

Fast forward some time and a little branch was coming out. 3 summers later and this is what I've got.

I've tried planting lots of herbs but usually they won't grow. This time I was trying dill in a couple pots under different conditions to check what's work best. But I think this is actually moss?

In Central VA, although it might not be native. The tree has several clumps of reddish-orange berries.

Edit: Looks like pyracantha coccinea (Wikpedia). Thanks for everyone's input.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27546872

Not my photos.

Some friends in the Amazon recently discovered a new native fruit growing near their place, and they are now planting it in their food forest. The fruits that they found were already damaged, but the one shown in the thumbnail photo was mostly okay, and they said that the flavour reminded them of sapodilla (Manilkara zapota) and mango. The outer layer of pulp is sweeter than the segments around the seeds.

Immediately after ripening the fruits, the tree is flowering again, which is very fortunate for ID purposes.

I'd say that it's Porcelia mediocris based on the photos. Those flowers are clearly Annonaceae, and the shape of the fruit resembles other Porcelia fruits that I've seen. I arrived at the ID using these sources:

• list of Porcelia species
• This one is native to their region.
• visual confirmation of the fruit

Can anyone confirm? Does anyone think that it's something else?

iNaturalist said in the grape vine family which feels wild to me, if it is then having wild grapes growing around was not what I was expecting.