Rare Or Very Known But What IS It

[OROZCONLECHE]

[img]https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/victororozco/2012-09-13T21-27-57_0.jpg[/img]

[DoubleDogFarm]

Can't get the photo to enlarge, so I don't now the scale. Need more information.

Eric

[OROZCONLECHE]

Ill Try To Get better pictures this Morning

[rainbowgardener]

In the meantime, how big is it? Is that main stem stiff and woody?

[lorax]

That's an Abutilon. Whether or not it's a weed is up to you - but you can thank your lucky stars it isn't velvetleaf.

[rainbowgardener]

Thanks for the ID, Lorax, but why are you maligning velvetleaf? I always keep some in my garden. It is a great trap crop for leafminers, that prefer those soft leaves to anything else.

[lorax]

You've obviously never experienced it in a tropical setting. I use random "weedy" solanums as leafminer traps, because if I let velvetleaf take hold here I'm so screwed - it will even choke out my Amazon grass.

[!potatoes!]

looks more like chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius)or the like, to me, than the abutilons I know.

[lorax]

The leaves don't look divided enough - even when they're young sprouds, chaya have very deeply divided leaves. I'm also not seeing the hairs that would be typical of chaya.....

[!potatoes!]

that's funny! the chaya I have is totally hairless, but the abutilons are slightly fuzzy - certainly more hairy than the chaya...chalk it up to regional or perhaps varietal differences?

[lorax]

Entirely possible. I have to handle the chaya here with gloves - it's got urticating hairs on it like a nettle. Abutilons, on the other hand, are smooth and pleasant to handle.

[!potatoes!]

I definitely got a hairless/non-stinging chaya, from a nursery in florida. it seriously looks just like that picture. thickish green stem and all.

and I wouldn't say the abutilons are hairy or anything, they're just fuzzier than the totally hairless chaya.