Hi Keller,

It isn't a Brazillian pepper. Do the leaves feel leathery?

I agree with imatallun, definitely not the evil BP (and I might be an expert, with all the damn BP that my neighbors keep carefully trimmed rather than whacked down and exterminated. It will send up babies in your yard, your neighbor's yard, yards a mile away, it truly is evil! But it has different leaves. And that looks like it might have a bit of mildew on it, which rules out anything as evil and impervious as BP)

The very last pic looks a little like an alamanda vine. Is it a vine growing up in that fence? Alamanda will get a pretty big trunk sometimes. But it will also have pretty yellow flowers periodically, so if you haven't see those, it probably isn't.

susannah

Hey, Susannah,

Believe it or not, after five years of cursing the neighbor's BP being blown over in my yard and picking up countless seeds one by one, I smiled brightly one day and asked if he would mind if I would remove it at my expense while I had the tree trimmer over. It was, without question, the best $30 I ever spent. (I buy clothes at consignment stores and don't get reckless with money.)

Regarding the tree ID, I thought it looked like a little Sea Grape. Hard to tell, though and I could be way off BASE.

Yes the leaves are leathery and it isn't vine like at all....more like a tree branch. It is by saltwater and has little clumps of yellowish bell type flowers.

Sure enough, I was way off base. Good luck identifying...

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4342/seed1tr9.jpg

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8630/seed2sk4.jpg

This is a photo of the seed like things both in shell and out

The flowers are MUCH smaller than the alamanda vine. They might be just a bit bigger than 1/8"

M, His trees would cost quite a bit more than that to remove, I'm afraid. They're huge!

Re. the plant, that is a pretty unusual seed pod. I'm surprised no one here has recognized it.

I have been looking through so many trees, weeds, shrubs and all other types of books for this ID...I don't even know if I can call it a tree...I will upload a pic of the whole thing.

Hi - have you posted this on the "Name That Plant" forum yet? there're some pretty smart folks over there......

just did with a link back to here...I hope someone can ID it.

Keller,
Could it be a mangrove?
Linda Leaf

nope not a mangrove as the leaves are to fat and the seed pod on a mangrove is long and skinny...that was the first thing I checked...hope to have new pics in just a few mins.

Linda leaf, I thought you nailed it when I looked up the Red Mangrove after your post. Good luck Keller! Hope you will let us know when you identify it.