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Flower ID #6491076
03/14/19 07:59 PM
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What is this doing sitting on top of a mid March snowbank? It looks familiar, but, sure am surprised to find it now. Any clues? It is in an area of Maple, Hickory and red cedar trees, and who knows what undergrowth.
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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491079
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Looks like bittersweet. Grows on a vine. I believe it is poisonous.


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Re: Flower ID [Re: amspoker] #6491084
03/14/19 08:09 PM
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Yep, I have always called it bittersweet. My wife dries some and uses it in arangements, decorations, etc.
It keeps well.

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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491088
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It looks like a flowering quince to me
Was it a bush?

Re: Flower ID [Re: wetdog] #6491109
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Originally Posted by wetdog
...Was it a bush?

That's the weird thing. The twig in the photo was just lying on top of a snowbank. I have no idea what it came off of.


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491111
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The ones I'm thinking of are a vine.

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Re: Flower ID [Re: wetdog] #6491127
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Originally Posted by wetdog
It looks like a flowering quince to me
Was it a bush?


that's what I was thinking!


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491133
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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491134
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Doing a quick search on bittersweet; this sure does resemble it. The only difference that I notice is mine has pink or red pedals, not orange.

Evidently birds love bittersweet. That might explain how a lone loose twig showed up unattached.

Thanks for the input. I had no idea how to even start a search.


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491144
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There is a pretty good market for dried biitersweet, for flower arrangements. It's not as common as it used to be around here. When I was around 4 years old, I remember my father stopping by a fence row in Aurora Indiana, with snow on the ground and in bitter wind, cutting bittersweet for my mother to put in her dried flower arrangements.

There are wild American and cultivated oriental varieties of bittersweet.

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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491162
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I tried to follow up on the hickory blossom lead, especially because I found this directly below a hickory tree. While it looks similar, I am tentatively ruling it out due to the three pedals rather than the four that I would expect for hickory.


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491168
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I put the pic on the big screen
I change my vote, bittersweet. Pics on the phone can be deceiving

Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491171
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Is that one of those things that hippies like to wear in their hair?


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491172
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It is bittersweet and it is the seed and spilt open pod that is orange. A vine that is male or female, needing each to produce the seed pods on female. Flower are hard to notice. Vine in my yard gets 40' tall growing up and strangling a Tamarac by the house. Have to chop it back every couple of years. Everybody gets bundles of seeds for xmas.


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Re: Flower ID [Re: T-Rex] #6491194
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Red squirrels nip these native bittersweet vines off and carry them to the middens

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I looked up the price of bittersweet online. It's mostly around $4.00 per 1 24" branch. I used to see fence rows covered in bittersweet. I have one friend who had some high off the ground in some trees, a few years ago. I should see if it still grows there.

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Re: Flower ID [Re: Vincenator] #6491270
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Originally Posted by Vincenator
Quince

It could be flowering Quince


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