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victorengel
Austin, TX
May 9, 2012 10:23 PM Post #9118028
| It came up as a volunteer in my wild flower bed. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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victorengel
Austin, TX
May 9, 2012 10:24 PM Post #9118029
| BTW, the leaves are not touch sensitive. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
 May 9, 2012 11:39 PM Post #9118048
| Maybe Chamaecrista nictitans, Partridge Pea.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=chni2
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=chnin2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaecrista_nictitans |
fixpix
Oradea
Romania
May 10, 2012 12:59 AM Post #9118078
| Not an Albizzia?
Just guessing |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 9:39 AM Post #9118550
| Metrosideros, I said it is NOT sensitive to touch. Your last link indicates C. nictitans is sensitive to touch. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
May 10, 2012 9:42 AM Post #9118557
| Chamaecrista nictitans grows here, and is not sensitive to touch.
Don't know why it has that common name. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 9:44 AM Post #9118559
| Fixpix, that was my first idea, but I don't know the group that well. Interestingly, I know of no plants within a couple blocks, so I don't know how the seeds got to my yard. There are several seedlings, so there must have been a significant source. If birds eat the seeds that would be one option, but I didn't think they did.. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 9:47 AM Post #9118564
| Metrosideros, perhaps what you have is something else. Just about every reference I see indicates C. nictitans is touch sensitive. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
May 10, 2012 10:00 AM Post #9118578
| Our plants are referred to Chamaecrista nictitans var. glabrata.
The leaves fold up within a few minutes of picking the plant, but never instantly like Mimosa pudica.
http://www.hear.org/pier/species/chamaecrista_nictitans.htm |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 10:26 AM Post #9118605
| In any case, I don't think that's it. On the photos in your last link, the pinnate leaves alternate along a stem. On my plant, they're paired. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 10:31 AM Post #9118609
| I suppose I should compare against some of my potted plants, such as Calliandra californica, which I know seeded last year and is a few yards away. I don't think the leaves are quite right, but I'll take a closer look. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 12:11 PM Post #9118699
| The calliandra has much shorter peioles and each leaf seems limited to four leaflets, each of which is pinnate in almost the same way. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
May 10, 2012 4:01 PM Post #9118969
| If the plant flowers, be sure to show the flowers and the fruit. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 10, 2012 7:12 PM Post #9119236
| will do |
Domehomedee
Arroyo Grande, CA (Zone 9a)
May 10, 2012 8:46 PM Post #9119333
| This may be out in left field but how about Caesalpinia gilliesii?
I have several I seeded in my backyard a few weeks ago and it looks the same to me,
and a reasonable guess for Texas. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 11, 2012 7:32 AM Post #9119652
| I used to have a Caesalpinia gilliesii plant, so it's a possibility based on that, but I don't think it ever fruited. The leaves don't look quite right to me, though. I don't have a plant handy for a direct comparison. I also have Caesalpinia pulcherrima which looks quite a bit different. It's a prodigious bloomer and fruiter, so I have plenty of C. pulcherrima seedlings to compare.
EDIT: Here is a picture of my C. gilliesii plant.
img src="http://victorspictures.com/img/s11/v34/p971790646-4.jpg
This message was edited May 11, 2012 8:39 AM |
growin
Vancouver, BC (Zone 8b)
 May 11, 2012 7:37 AM Post #9119664
| fixpix mentioned Albizia and it does remind me of that. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 11, 2012 7:53 AM Post #9119689
| There are albizia plants in the neighborhood, too. I'll have to check where the closest one is. I think it's at least two blocks away, but there may be a closer one I didn't notice. If it is an albizia, when is the earliest I can expect a flower? I don't know if I've ever seen a young one in bloom.
This message was edited May 11, 2012 8:54 AM |
sallyg
Anne Arundel,, MD (Zone 7a)
May 11, 2012 11:26 AM Post #9119931
| Two blocks is nothing to an Albizia. And those seeds persist forever. |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA (Zone 9a)
May 11, 2012 3:06 PM Post #9120164
| Do the leaves close up at night? Albizia leaves do. Although I'm not sure if seedlings would have that behavior yet or not. Also many other things in that family have leaves that close at night too, so if it does close up it doesn't conclusively prove that it is Albizia but it would at least keep it on the list of possibilities. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 12, 2012 9:13 AM Post #9120951
| I don't know. I'll check tonight if I remember. |
victorengel
Austin, TX
May 13, 2012 12:21 AM Post #9121706
| Yes, they close up at night. Surveying all my other plants, of all the pinnate plants, about half of them close up at night. This includes Caesalpinia pulcherrima. I thought I'd mention that since a caesalpinia was suggested as a possible ID for this plant. |
