Identify This Plant

  • Identify This Plant

    Posted by CrazyDazes on September 28, 2022 at 1:36 am

    I have these near the cabin. I should know what they are but can’t recall a name. I have seen them all my life.

    PapaFarmer replied 1 year, 3 months ago 8 Members · 10 Replies
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  • Tori

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 2:33 am

    Try partridge pea. I’m not sure if that is the correct name, but it might get you started.

  • CarolinaCarefree

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 3:27 am

    This looks.like the locus tree we have here. But be careful if it is. There are two varieties. One is the black locus, it will have thorns on it when it gets bigger and the pods are editable. The other is not and does not have thorns. May be wrong though.aybe it will help.

  • CarolinaCarefree

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 4:44 am

    Please ignore the last post from me. I got it wrong. The black locus does not have thorns and is poisonous. It is the thorny or honey locust that have huge thorns but the pods are edible. Sorry for any mix up. I always get these backwards for some reason.

  • Lolah-B

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 7:10 am

    My Mom called them touch me nots if that’s the one that closes when you touch it. I am not sure of the real name. I wonder if edible?

  • GeorgiaFarmer

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 9:21 am

    It’s a mimosa. As a kid, we worried these plants to death.

  • Peachlady22

    Member
    September 28, 2022 at 1:22 pm

    If the flowers are a purple ball, it is a mimosa, sensitive plant. If the flowers are yellow, it is a partridge pea. Both black and honey locust are trees. This looks like a small bush. It looks more like a partridge pea.

  • CrazyDazes

    Member
    September 30, 2022 at 11:45 am

    I know it isn’t the touch me not. I used to love playing with those as a kid. Not a mimosa. We have those here too. I am thinking the Pea. Gonna check that out. It is a small bush.

    • PapaFarmer

      Member
      December 11, 2022 at 9:12 pm

      The PlantNet app shows it as Partridge pea.


  • CrazyDazes

    Member
    October 2, 2022 at 3:08 am

    It is definitely the patridge pea. After looking it up, it grows in most eastern areas. Thanks everyone.

  • Bonfire

    Member
    October 22, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Astragalus – Great herb.

    ‘There are certain energy-draining diseases that leave a victim’s body thoroughly exhausted, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, candidiasis, herpes simplex, mononucleosis and hypoglycaemia. A number of different measures, including dietary, herbal, nutritional and drug, are resorted to by those who are desperately seeking solutions to their problems. In Oriental medicine one herb stands out as extremely useful as a remedy for this physical weakness: Astragalus root. It has been employed by Chinese herbalists for ‘every sort of wasting or exhausting disease’. Astragalus root is regarded as a wonderful tonic for the ‘spleen and lung.”

    I could be wrong…but I think this is Astragalus membranaceus. The pea family

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