Can you tell me what this is?
Hey my son and his dad brought me this for mothers day and I have no clue what it is. It looks like a bush or tree...
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watermelonpunch
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watermelonpunch
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Sorry if this seems like a silly question, but I don't want to assume...
Do you mean they dug it up from somewhere it was planted in the ground in someone's home garden?
Or you mean they purchased it at a garden store where it was outside?
What part of the world is this?
I'm in Pennsylvania. And my mother lives in Florida, and occasionally she talks about plants & shrubs in people's yards there that would only be in pots as house plants in Pennsylvania.
I looked up the umbrella tree, and it says it's tropical, a popular house plant, but grown outdoors in "mild climates".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schefflera_arboricola
This page has a picture of leaves that look more like your plant:
https://www.houseplantsforyou.com/dwarf-umbrella-tree/
Mind you, I don't know for sure if that's what it is. But the leaves look similar to me.
(And it also seems like the type of plant someone might receive as a gift.)
Do you mean they dug it up from somewhere it was planted in the ground in someone's home garden?
Or you mean they purchased it at a garden store where it was outside?
What part of the world is this?
I'm in Pennsylvania. And my mother lives in Florida, and occasionally she talks about plants & shrubs in people's yards there that would only be in pots as house plants in Pennsylvania.
I looked up the umbrella tree, and it says it's tropical, a popular house plant, but grown outdoors in "mild climates".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schefflera_arboricola
This page has a picture of leaves that look more like your plant:
https://www.houseplantsforyou.com/dwarf-umbrella-tree/
Mind you, I don't know for sure if that's what it is. But the leaves look similar to me.
(And it also seems like the type of plant someone might receive as a gift.)
Sorry it took so long to respond. They dug it up out of my ex husbands friends garden.... My ex husbands friend told my son he could pick any plant to give me for mothers day and by son chose this one. I just want to care for it right. I don't know wherehe weithewhether to have it inside or outside in sun or shade..... Ya know?
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watermelonpunch
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Yes the Pieris leaves look very similar to your plant too:
https://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&hl=en ... =102&ty=31
Here's some info on caring:
https://www.thegardenhelper.com/pieris.html
Would make more sense that it's that plant, if it was growing on someone's back yard in Spokane. (I think that's a similar zone as PA.)
I'm almost certain that an umbrella plant can't be grown outdoors in the ground in the north, even in the milder climate of the Pacific northwest.
That said, I once saw a palm tree of some type growing outside, year round, in someone's front yard in a suburb of Philadelphia in south Jersey, much to the amazement of all who saw. ha ha So who knows.
Plants can surprise.
If I were you I'd put those words (like lily of the valley shrub) into google image and just scroll through the photos, looking for pictures where you can compare the leaves & the stems/branches to.
That's what I do when I'm trying to confirm identification.
https://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&hl=en ... =102&ty=31
Here's some info on caring:
https://www.thegardenhelper.com/pieris.html
Would make more sense that it's that plant, if it was growing on someone's back yard in Spokane. (I think that's a similar zone as PA.)
I'm almost certain that an umbrella plant can't be grown outdoors in the ground in the north, even in the milder climate of the Pacific northwest.
That said, I once saw a palm tree of some type growing outside, year round, in someone's front yard in a suburb of Philadelphia in south Jersey, much to the amazement of all who saw. ha ha So who knows.
Plants can surprise.
If I were you I'd put those words (like lily of the valley shrub) into google image and just scroll through the photos, looking for pictures where you can compare the leaves & the stems/branches to.
That's what I do when I'm trying to confirm identification.