You'd think that, with all the time the poster saved by typing 'u', the pics would have been clearer.

Aloidendron dichotomum now. If that's really what it is?

lol! I'm not convinced... can you show us a pic from further back so we can see the whole plant? And please make sure you take the photo on a blindingly sunny day or wait until at least one hour after sunset. BTW, smaller images would help too. :)

I swear that there is a sasquatch in the top middle picture.

Jeff,

You can tell that photo's taken in Oregon, because Bigfoot loves Pig and Pancake. I've got a T-shirt proving it.

I think that's a lonesome pine. So Virginia, not Oregon.

Always helps to take photos while you're on the run.... maybe from the sasquatch in the middle pic?

I'm always amazed and impressed when some people on Name That Plant can correctly ID something based on a brief, not entirely coherent description with no photo. (Kudos to you, floral_uk!)

I have surprised myself with correctly naming incoherent nondescriptive plant descriptions from the public, but maybe it’s because you get the same questions over and over and the answers are often easy plants like cosmos or hosta. I think someone one said, you know, that green plant that grows outside, and I said hosta? and they said yes lol.

Well, at least they didn't confuse their photos with their favorite color filters and vignetting tools..

The poster won; you guys all took him seriously.

Didn't know it was a contest.

jeffarm! Genius! Love it!

Jeffarm, I was snorting in the dentist’s waiting room. So funny!

four, the people who replied won. They didn't take him seriously. Their replies are pretty funny. Gardener humor, for sure! Lonesome Pine, Blurry Birch (Betula blurifolia), etc. You all are FUNNY!

jeffram: you have identified each correctly. LOL!

You've got some more to name, good people - I want genus, species and subspecies, if any. Pay close attention to any varieties, as well. This isn't my photo, but I was lucky enough to see this in person, once upon a time in Barcelona, Spain.

Oh come on. Can't you find something with a bit more challenge to it?

Well I guess that's proof that big foot does exist. I also saw an UFO and proves they exist as well. Oh wait, did I just see Santa Claus fling over?? It is December.

What is that building? Incredible!

D’oh

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-05/la-vuelta-helicopter-broadcast-captures-marijuana-plantation/11480586

Dinie,

It's an apartment building on the Avenue de las Ramblas (sp?), a main pedestrian thoroughfare in Barcelona. Sadly there were tapas to eat and wine to drink and other activities that precluded me from snooping around and doing some botanizing. Also, the Sangrada Familia is close by.

https://www.urbangardensweb.com/2013/07/14/my-private-vegitecture-tour-of-jardi-tarradellas-barcelonas-tallest-residential-vertical-garden/

“Sadly there were tapas to eat and wine to drink“. Talk about a misspent youth ;-).

@cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5 I would have been going door to door asking to see their balcony. I would have met new friends. I would have a place to stay for my next trip to spain. I would have kicked myself afterwards for missing something spectacular, because I was looking at Spanish Moss.

dinie,

And to think that youth is still being misspent, my word.

gg,

I do that anyway - 'never a faint heart won a fair maiden' has been adapted many times for planty things.

Bumping this up for the masses (all 27 of us) to enjoy again.

John

Well, thank you. Not in the original 27 but I was laughing. It is after midnight and I have to work tomorrow in 95 degree weather but the extra ten minutes is worth every yawn.

Really, this was hilarious.

Well it is right up there with a customer call I took when working at HomeGoods. CALLER: "i'm looking for a particular piece of furniture, but I really can't describe it "......

IF you zoom in, and apply some techie "screen clearing and sharper focus" app, here is what really shows up - proving Sasquatch lives in northern CA...

Missed this until now - funny!

And I'll bet the fact that maybe 1/3 of the queries turn out to be pokeweed - or mulberry - makes ID-ing things a bit easier too 😄

This never gets old. I laughed just as hard this time as I did the first time i saw it!

bump,

just because it is a lovely thread that never fails to make me smile

have a good day, my fellow plantaholics

A great thread. May it live on.

saw this in the city, some -probably- overoptimistic landscaper thought it a great idea to plant a Picea abies (fir?) in an inner city situation, warm 77-8, dry summers

so it developed as expetcted by me

voila

Picea nudensis var totale

have a nice day

Lin

Linaria, that variety is such a slow grower, isn't it? So there's never any need to prune :D

Really, it's the perfect specimen.

Oh, put some lights and Christmas decorations on it and no one will notice. ;-)

A garden nearby had a large, and presumably very expensive, cloud pruned conifer planted. I don't think they've noticed it's been dead for three years. After all it's still in those pretty blob shapes and miraculously doesn't need trimming at all.

I live in what is considered one of the nicer neighborhoods in my county, but there are still a couple people who allowed totally dead blue spruces to fester in their yard for years. Finally last year, one of them realized it wasn't going to 'come back to life' and cut it down.

While someone else has bumped this thread...it's been a while since I've vented my spleen. American's stewardship of our suburban or 'subrural' land is so infuriating. Leaving obviously dead trees in a yard is typical of it. I wish I'd taken more pictures in Australia along the lines of 'the is a generic street in an outer suburbs of Melbourne, notice how better kept the gardens are than an similar outer suburb of an American city'. What was particularly telling was the true farmsteads. Real blue collar places on the outermost fringes of where I traveled. I pointed out in my travelogue that sometimes the 'landscaping', such as it were, was incredibly minimalist. In a zone 10 climate where there are zillions of things you can grow, the only plants around the farm house might be a couple native gumtrees (Eucalypts) and just a few bog standard rose bushes in a simple row by the gravel drive. No 'foundation planting' to keep the simple 1 story house from flying away into outer space or whatever 'foundation planting' is supposed to do! No attempts to put on airs with plants. Yes, you might once in a while see an old run down shack or an ugly pickup truck with a snorkle LOL. (seems to be a feature AU & NZ offroading enthusiasts particularly favor) I'm not saying that it was always 'picture perfect', but that overall it felt well kept. Noticeably less areas of chaos, other than the good chaos of places like the native Victorian fern forests. Contrast with much of the mid-Atlantic, where you're going to see stuff like large areas of woodland completely overrun by hideous Celastrus or Kudzu. Or an attempt to make a very long driveway lined with an inappropriate plant like leylandii, now full of bagworms and dying branches. Just saw a place like that on the eastern shore a few days ago. Or a large, ugly unmown patch of aggressive and invasive field weeds like Horseweed and Thistle on empty lots in unzoned areas, just because someone can't bother to deal with it. (granted that's more common in 'outer suburbia' than true farmland, of course, because the farmers know to keep that crap out. I sometimes shop at one of the largest Amish farm supply stores, lit only with battery powered lights and skylights. Believe me, herbicides are one modern technology they do not eschew. They have a warehouse about as big as a bed bath and beyond full of them and other Ag chems!) It seems like Australia especially, combined the English instinct for gardening or just having a proper looking area outside a house, with a keen awareness of the dangers posed by invasives. NZ seems to have more of a problem with things like gorse, because they just don't have the human capital resources to deal with it.

floral, I'm sure the spiders appreciate that.

found this one when cycling with the family

Catalpa bingonioides Nana var disectus