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[MadPlanter]

Is this plant the mouse cucumber or mouse melon. Maybe something similar to that if not. Found this growing behind some buildings wild but it isn't a native I've ever saw. Thanks!

[MadPlanter]

Can anyone confirm the above posted plant? Just wanna be sure so I don't miss harvesting some seeds if its the right plant I'm thinking it could be. Thanks

[Frog Pajamas]

I know this is something common and simple, but I can't remember what for the life of me. Collected a bunch of seeds and would like to upgrade the label from "purple flower." :-P

Pretty lavender to purple blooms, absolutely heavenly smell, much like gardenias.

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[Ian Morris]

^ I cannot say 100% but that looks like a Petunia.  Mine are just like that plant wise including the felt like hairs only the flowers are yellow and white, I believe it was called 'lemondrop'

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[fairdinkumseeds]

Melothria scabra, mouse melon I reckon.
Taste great and if you want to save seeds I just wait till they get really big, thumb size, then crush the fruit under water, removing the chunks of skin.
Then rub the pulp on a strainer in the sink under the tap. Add mostly washed pulp and seeds to a tall glass vase. Fill with water swirl and pour off remaining pump. Seeds sink.
If you save the pulp and put it back on the garden you should get enough "volunteers" from the odd missed seed to save you replanting next time.
Definitely a keeper that one. Taste great, and super popular.

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[Sunshine]

Ian is right, that is definitely petunia. I recognized it but I couldn't remember the name. They're usually sold in hanging baskets. Did you buy yours like that or did you plant them yourself?

+1 For the positive IDs to both dinkum and Ian.

[Frog Pajamas]

Yep, sold in a basket as trailing petunias. They were one of my Mother's Day plants this year. My first plants ever were from my boys a few years ago.   

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[happyconcacti]

I found this at a cacti nursery. It's a great nursery except for one tragic flaw: they don't label ANYTHING!!!!

This flower is attached to the main plant in the background.

Any ideas?

[fairdinkumseeds]

Stapelia? Just a guess..

[happyconcacti]

Stapelia? Just a guess..

I think you got it. No wonder that rapscallion at the nursery was trying to get me to smell it.

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[fairdinkumseeds]

Sorry the pics look like they were taken on the sun.
Friend hit me up, and in my expert opinion I can tell it is definitely a cacti....

[delta9hippie]

Sorry the pics look like they were taken on the sun.
Friend hit me up, and in my expert opinion I can tell it is definitely a cacti....

Looks like a Trichocereus (or Echinopsis) of some sort. Maybe a grandis?

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[nobody]

The ones laying down look like Trichocereus spachianus to me, a bit hard to id without flowers though.

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[fairdinkumseeds]

It's all the same clump, just stood one up to get a look at the tip. (figured the number of ribs etc might be useful, but that crappy camera, hard to see much)
Will try and get a better pic of them next time I see him and ask what colour/shape the flower was.

[New Wisdom]

They don't look like trichocerei to me.  Not the laying down ones, but the one that's standing up on the right does. Almost like a T. candicans or something. 

Are they the same plants?