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emch

Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.

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  • Season Icon Late SummerLate Summer 2020
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emch

Help me identify this plant. Someone posted it at GrowIt so this is #notmyplant but it is driving me crazy! The heck is this? PlantID

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txgardener

@wildbloomers might know

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emch

Even Plant Net was clueless.

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txgardener

The leaf like bloom reminded me of a desert rose bloom.

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emch

If it is a bloom! Could it be a cabbage reaching up through something else?

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KariSamuel

Looks like a variety of #salix to me, but not 100% sure.

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emch

@KariSamuel, I see what you mean as far as the leaves go, but is there a Salix anywhere that makes green roses instead of pussytoes?

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KariSamuel

Yes, that is hard to explain! Maybe it's a cluster or mutation?

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emch

IDK who labelled this a Desert Rose, but c'mon peeps, this looks nothing like any Desert Rose I've ever seen. #cantberight

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emch

OMG @angiie that is exactly it -- a crazy midge gall on a Salix plant!!! TY so much, but now alas it is much too late to carry this info to the person who posted this at GrowIt...

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emch

Sorry for what @angiie ? You nailed it for me at last, as in BULLSEYE 🎯

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