Weird Tree -- Looking for ID

[jamied]

Can anyone tell me what this is? I know it is growing around USDA 7b in Mississippi.

The friend that asked me about said it looked just the same last year.

I'm up in USDA 4/5 and have never come across anything like it. I would have guessed it to be even more tropical than 7b, but that is where it's growing.

Thanks!


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- Jamie
Neenah, WI

 

[Havana woody]

Horny ghost tree? Not sure the leaves resemple a bay tree. But I have never seen that fruit. Or is it a flower? Any particular smell or bigger ones arround? If the fruit was less consistant I would suspect an insect host.

 

[jamied]

Horny ghost tree? Not sure the leaves resemple a bay tree. But I have never seen that fruit. Or is it a flower? Any particular smell or bigger ones arround? If the fruit was less consistant I would suspect an insect host.

I wondered the same thing and if it is a fruit or flower, I'm pretty sure they said it had kind of a musty smell to it. They said it all looks about the same in terms of rough size. They did not remember any blooms prior to when these showed up. They cut one open and said it was kind of a spongy texture.

Since they told me it reproduced this exact same fruit / flower last year, my guess was that it is normal for the tree and isn't some weird fungus / insect issue, but that is just my guess.


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- Jamie
Neenah, WI

 

[TreEmergencyB]

its a fruit and a flower duh you tree guys should know that

 

[lone wolf]

Magnolia?

 

[daBear49]

It really looks like Magnolia leaves but with a bad disease with the flowers.

 

[jamied]

and the winner is....

No one guessed it. I contacted the state and just heard back:

"Camellia plant with Camellia leaf gall"

Jamie

 

[Havana woody]

That's interesting I've never seen a camellia whith such elongated lea fve

 

[jamied]

That's interesting I've never seen a camellia whith such elongated lea fve

I read about it a bit and there are a lot of different cultivars of the plant. I think something said close to 2,300 different cultivars worldwide. Not sure how many of those are in the US.

 

[Doc Hickory]

Ok, I saw the answer. From the pix my guess would be a can of biscuits blew up and the dough landed all over that shrub...

 

[Havana woody]

Oh absolutely,it is a very close relitive of the tea that we pour over ice that's why it called a tea rose. I just haven't seen one with such long thin leaves in the south. The japonicas have a fat shiny leaf and the sesanquas have a smaller aerated edge and duller appearance. The tea we got in Hong Kong called Pearl jasmine is the three newest leaves from the tips rolled into a Pea size ball. When. You put it into hot water it looks like this a very thin long gleefully.

 

[Havana woody]

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[Havana woody]

Oh absolutely,it is a very close relitive of the tea that we pour over ice that's why it called a tea rose. I just haven't seen one with such long thin leaves in the south. The japonicas have a fat shiny leaf and the sesanquas have a smaller aerated edge and duller appearance. The tea we got in Hong Kong called Pearl jasmine is the three newest leaves from the tips rolled into a Pea size ball. When. You put it into hot water it looks like this a very thin long gleefully.

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