Sunday, August 22, 2010

PLANT IDENTIFICATION Please!?

I really need help in identifing this plant-





I have posted some pictures of the plant on this site: http://weblog.xanga.com/yahooanswerspict...

PLANT IDENTIFICATION Please!?
Mostly it is black mulberry





Black Mulberry (Morus nigra) is a species of mulberry. It is native to southwestern Asia, where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown.





It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10-13 m tall. The leaves are 10-20 cm long and 6-10 cm broad (up to 23 cm long on vigorous shoots), downy on the underside, the upper surface rough with very short, stiff hairs. The edible fruit is dark purple, almost black, when ripe, 2-3 cm long, a compound cluster of several small drupes; it is richly flavoured, similar to the Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) but unlike the more insipid fruit of the White Mulberry (Morus alba).





Retreived from wikipedia .





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http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/mul...





http://www.botanypictures.com/plantimage...





So it is black mulberry or Morus nigra of Moraceae family of the order Rosales .
Reply:It is unequivocal Morus nigra: Morus rubra, the similar species has a bark more asperate, the fruits are more stocky and its in harvest bright yellow leaves and foot stalks are a bit rough from small hairs.


If you enlarge the photos of this site, you can see it well:


http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showima...





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Everybody asking for identification should give such a lot of details, that makes it much more easy to find out.
Reply:I think that it is a Kudzu - it was brought over from Japan.





Kudzu (クズ or 葛, Kuzu), Pueraria lobata (syn. P. montana, P. thunbergiana), is one of about 20 species in the genus Pueraria in the pea family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is native to southern Japan and southeast China in eastern Asia. The name comes from the Japanese word meaning vine. The other species of Pueraria occur in southeast Asia, further south.


It is a climbing, woody or semi-woody, perennial vine capable of reaching heights of 20–30 m (66-98 ft) in trees, but also scrambles extensively over lower vegetation. The leaves are deciduous, alternate and compound, with a petiole (leaf stem) 10–20 cm (4–8 in) long and three broad leaflets 14–18 cm (6–7 in) long and 10 cm (4 in) broad. The leaflets may be entire or deeply 2–3 lobed, and are pubescent underneath with hairy margins.


The flowers are borne in long panicles 10–25 cm (about 4–10 in) long with about 30–80 individual blooms at nodes on the stems (see image). Each flower is about 1–1.5 cm (about 0.4–0.6 in) long, purple, and highly fragrant. The flowers are copious nectar producers and are visited by many species of insects, including bees, butterflies and moths. Flowering occurs in late summer and is soon followed by production of brown, hairy, flattened seed pods, each of which contains three to ten hard seeds.


The non-woody parts of the plant are edible. The young leaves can be used for salad or cooked as a leaf vegetable; the flowers battered and fried (like squash flowers); and the starchy tuberous roots can be prepared as any root vegetable.


Once established, kudzu plants grow rapidly, extending as much as 20 m (60 ft) per season at a rate of about 30 cm (12 in) per day. This vigorous vine may extend 10–30 m (30–100 ft) in length, with basal stems 1–10 cm (1–4 in) in diameter. Kudzu roots are fleshy, with massive tap roots 10–20 cm (4–8 in) or more in diameter, 1–2 m (3–6 ft) or more in length, and weighing as much as 180 kg. As many as thirty stems may grow from a single root crown.


Kudzu grows well under a wide range of conditions and in most soil types. Preferred habitats are forest edges, abandoned fields, roadsides, and disturbed areas, where sunlight is abundant. Kudzu grows best where winters do not drop below –15 °C (5 °F), average summer temperatures are regularly above 27 °C (80 °F), and annual rainfall is 1000 mm (40 in) or more. In areas where winters drop below –15 °C, it will be killed to ground level, but the roots may send up new growth in the spring.
Reply:Black Mulberry (Morus nigra) is a species of mulberry. It is native to southwestern Asia, where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown.





It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10-13 m tall. The leaves are 10-20 cm long and 6-10 cm broad (up to 23 cm long on vigorous shoots), downy on the underside, the upper surface rough with very short, stiff hairs. The edible fruit is dark purple, almost black, when ripe, 2-3 cm long, a compound cluster of several small drupes; it is richly flavoured, similar to the Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) but unlike the more insipid fruit of the White Mulberry (Morus alba).





Black Mulberry has long been cultivated for its edible fruit, and is planted and often naturalised west across much of Europe, including the Ukraine, and east into China.





Kingdom: Plantae





Phylum: Magnoliophyta





Class: Magnoliopsida





Order: Rosales





Family: Moraceae





Genus: Morus





Species: M. nigra
Reply:It may be ..Morus nigra...In all Europe it grow..In Italy we have two quality..one with thorns,..it come from Persia..And another autoctona from Europe...We do many james (marmaleid)..Look ...http://www.albanesi.it/Alimentazione/cib...


By..by Roger-Florence -Italy


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