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Oct 15, 2024 6:13 PM CST
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Name: Janet
Lake Village, IN zone 5b
This is growing at the house I just bought in central Missouri. I know it doesn't look very healthy but does anyone recognize it?
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Oct 15, 2024 9:45 PM CST
California Central Valley (Zone 8b)
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A sad pepper plant?
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Oct 15, 2024 11:31 PM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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pepper came to my mind as well, but the stems look too woody to me.
Plant it and they will come.
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Oct 16, 2024 7:25 AM CST
Name: Porkpal
Richmond, TX (Zone 9a)
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It does look like a pepper. Here pepper plants survive for many years and grow woody stems, but I've never seen one that looked that "mature".
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Oct 16, 2024 11:16 AM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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Zone 5 b though?
Plant it and they will come.
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Oct 16, 2024 11:54 AM CST
Name: Porkpal
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No, can't be a pepper.
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Oct 16, 2024 12:12 PM CST
Name: Janine
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My first thought was Lilac.
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Oct 16, 2024 12:30 PM CST
Name: Tofi
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Seems like a woody entity with opposite leaves and branching arrangement, No idea of what it is, As @janinilulu suggested, Lilac fits more on this one
Although few Solanaceae could appear to have opposite leaves due to "Geminate" leaves, but it will not have opposite branching. And the bud in this mystery plant seems also not of Solanaceae.
I second Lilac suggestion
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Oct 16, 2024 1:37 PM CST
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@FarminginPink,

When you crush a leaf does it smell bad? Did you see it bloom?

New thought... tree tobacco with some insect infestation.
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Oct 18, 2024 5:13 PM CST
Name: Amanda
KC metro area, Missouri (Zone 6a)
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Oct 26, 2024 12:08 PM CST
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Name: Janet
Lake Village, IN zone 5b
Thank you all for your ideas. I plan to be back there in a week or two. Will look (and smell) more closely then. It may not get id'd until next Spring.
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Oct 26, 2024 12:31 PM CST
Silex, Missouri 63377
When I find an unknown plant, I wait until spring, let it bloom. I would hate to kill something that might be beautiful or useful. For anyone getting my home when I am gone, they will find many good eating plants, medicinal plants, do not always look good, but good eating, medicine.
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Oct 27, 2024 9:37 AM CST
Name: John
Scott County, KY (Zone 5b)
You can't have too many viburnums..
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When FarminginPink next gets to visit this unhappy plant, please take pictures of the WHOLE thing, and then more detailed images. Look for evidence of fruit/seed or dry husks still attached to the plant. It sure makes it easier to ID something when the pieces you see have a reference point. Lilac is plausible. No other "fat green pointed opposite buds" woody plants are flying to mind. That one looks like it has had excessive pruning/shearing applied. Where it occurs in the landscape can also offer significant clues to what it is, and what it likely is not.

Since we don't have DNA to work with, plant ID is different than seeing a fingerprint (or a whole finger) in identifying a person.

Been on vacation; ask me about southern Utah and other arid high elevation environment plants.
I'm still drifting around in the Juniperus osteosperma and Pinus edulis wanderland of the Grand Staircase...
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Oct 27, 2024 11:25 AM CST
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I went out and stared at some possibilities. I agree Lilac seems to fit better than anything.
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