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[AcaciaAve]

Thanks Acacia, Im not sure.  The reading I am now doing on tree aloe is that the bark is grey  and smooth, this has a more beige and palmate (like the draceana which sorta peels away) texture.

Perhaps it gets smoother and grey as it ages? Although the picture in this wiki post looks spot on except for the bark/trunk...

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloe_barberae

I'm pretty certain unless it's a subspecies, but give it time and see if it keeps growing tall.
The identification is based on observing it growing from baby to juvenile over the years at a California botanical garden.

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[Ian Morris]

Acacia,  did a search for aloe tree on HP and came up empty handed.  Tried just aloe and found our girl, the climbing aloe, aloe ciliaris.  I think I would rather have an aloe tree but this thing is pretty cool as well, maybe one of our South African seeders can help illuminate cultural/entho uses. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloe_ciliaris

[FewTrueSeed]

Can anyone help me with this one. Grows wild around here. Obviously in the mallow family. I know my hibiscus. Any ideas?

Edit: no flowers today with rain. Heres the seed pods.

[Ian Morris]

If those leaves are big, real big, Id say its one of my favorites, Paulowinia tomentosa the Royal Empress Tree.  It is sorta invasive and has spread throughout the US because the seeds were used as packing material for Chinease made goods.  Not 100% sure but it is perhaps the fastest growing tree, in a pot I had one grow five feet its first year.  The tree has some of the first blooms in the SE and they are a nice shade of bluish lavender. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa

PM me if you want seeds, they were harvested at the end of 2015 but I imagine they are still good.

[FewTrueSeed]

Good guess. Not it unfortunatly. The empress tree cannot flower in my zone. I did start some from seed someone here sent me. They grow very fast. Ill post a pic or two on my grow log. No, these are shorter six feet max. Ill post a flower and seed pod today if i can. Definatly mallow family.

[plantlight]

Good guess. Not it unfortunatly. The empress tree cannot flower in my zone. I did start some from seed someone here sent me. They grow very fast. Ill post a pic or two on my grow log. No, these are shorter six feet max. Ill post a flower and seed pod today if i can. Definatly mallow family.

How about Abutilon theophrasti?  Seed pod and flower look right.  http://wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu/imagelib/imgdetails.php?imgid=23

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[FewTrueSeed]

Thats is plantlight. Thanks for the help!!!

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[GrowerAndaShower]

Couple flowers I liked outside a client's office. Any idea what they are? Usually I can ID plants through an app I use called "Garden Answers", but nothing came up that matched when I searched these images. First two pics are of a vine climbing a railing, second two were growing in a clump of tall leafy stalks. Any thoughts?

[Ian Morris]

Bottom one is a type of Hydrangea.  They are hugely popular here in the South but unfortunately I have seen plants with the same genetics, having different characteristics so a more conclusive identification might be impossible.

If you have the climate, I would say the first one might be  a type of Bougainvillea, but honestly I would be surprised that any app worth the install missed these two gems, so I might be 100% wrong.


-Ian

[Botanicus]

first one looks like Mandevilla

[nobody]

Can someone ID this for me?

nobody

[Roze]

Couple flowers I liked outside a client's office. Any idea what they are? Usually I can ID plants through an app I use called "Garden Answers", but nothing came up that matched when I searched these images. First two pics are of a vine climbing a railing, second two were growing in a clump of tall leafy stalks. Any thoughts?

The last one is Hydrangea macrophylla

[Botanicus]

Can someone ID this for me?

nobody

That is one of the 'ant-plants', looks like Myrmecodia (Rubiaceae)

[nobody]

Yep, Thanks!

nobody

[Chicsa]

m. strigliosa?