Hi I live in Caryville Florida and I have an unusual plant growing in my yard. I would very much love to know what it is please and thank you.

to NGA!

I could be wrong, but,
I think you may have this dreaded invader! Compare your plant to this. Click on the link here. Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)


edited to add...After looking again, I believe I really could be wrong. Hope I am. The fruit doesn't look quite right.

What did the flowers look like? Any pictures? Someone should be able to ID this for you but my search comes up empty.

Thank you for your replys unfortunately it was not an air potato upon close inspection terrafirma. And as of yet it has not produced flowers Zencat.

nomedenol said:Hi I live in Caryville Florida and I have an unusual plant growing in my yard. I would very much love to know what it is please and thank you.

It could be a Tung Oil tree/Vernicia fordii. Take a close look at the leaves to see if there are two reddish color glands...like this. If your plant is Vernicia fordii the seeds are extremely poisonous so be careful please.

In order to get fruit, you have to have flowers. Maybe they were too small to notice?

The inside of the fruit resembles a Tung Oil tree's fruit a lot.

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I think your right greene this is a picture of the leaf.

Thank you all for your posts you have been very helpful.

What attracted me was the pretty flowers. It took me three long years to identify my NOID tree as a Vernicia fordii/Tung Oil tree.
There used to be a Tung Oil plantation near where I live (before my time). Henry Ford was looking for a good source of domestic oil as it had previously been imported from China.
The area was known as Ways, Georgia, later called Richmond HIll.
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