What is this alien fruit?
This is my neighbor's tree encroaching over my 11 foot fence.
It's supposedly a peach tree although, neighboring peach trees bear fruit,
we've never seen anything like fruit on this tree until
three years ago.
Then it developed something very odd
That hung there for three years until the latest storm
blew it down onto my shed roof.
It's not a peach.
What's left is over 18 inches long
filled with veins and seeds.
Any guesses?
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Maybe it's the fruit of Buttheads.....lol
It's a pod
A flesh eating pod???
A body snatching pod
That would explain the missing cat..................meow...
Well, while its not the entire tree-- its definitely a pod of it!
Long time since I've seen that movie...love Donald Sutherland!
I think it's on Netflix. I might watch it this weekend
If the leaves were clearer in the picture that might be a useful clue.
Sometimes you can identify a tree by only looking at a pod of it.
For example, you can always a Dogwood Tree by its bark!
definitely not a peach tree..........
The leaf looks like a Magnolia to me but that fucking pod is indeed 'alien' to me.
It isn't a 'legume', it's a seed pod with flat dry seeds from what I can see. Now you'll have me looking for the damn thing in my books...
BTW, you have the right to 'prune' that tree off of your fence, which you SHOULD do. It's actually bad for the tree to be rubbing up against the fence. Wait until it's as cold as it's going to get around you if you can. Cut at an angle and as clean as you can. Then do it every year to keep it back...
The leaves resemble Rubber tree leaves:
The seed pods can look like this:
I've also seen this:
What I would do is plant a few of the seeds from the pod you have in pots, and see what grows. If it turns out to be a small Rubber Tree, they are quite decorative and many people have them in their homes. They will be whatever size you want, because they are easily pruned. They can remain small like this:
Or grow much larger to fill a corner of the room, like this:
It kinda looks like a schiffalera (spelling?). My mom had one in the house.
But that seed pod (now that I think about it) looks like a pod from a Red Bud tree. But this tree is definitely not a Red Bud
Definitely not a rubber tree which would not survive here, but i did shake about 30 seeds out of it
and made an incision in the middle and got 5 or 6 seeds in much better condition.
But given the length of time it was hanging and the mold I doubt they are viable
but that won't stop us from planting them and see(d)ing if any thing happens.
Great pics Buzz, I have had many rubber trees over the years.
This is similar but much more robust than schefflera
and much smaller leaves,
I should have put something comparative in that picture like a hand, lol
Thanks for photo!
Seeing the leaves more clearly , apparently I was wrong-- its not Carob.
(The pods look similar, but the leaves seem different-- in the photo you posted, the leaves have a point at the tip which Carob leaves don't have-- also looks like the leaf arrangement on the stem seems different...also carob leavers are much less shiny?).
DON'T PLANT THOSE SEEDS. IT STARTS THE INVASION!!
And once it starts-- nothing can stop it!
To me those leaves look like some kind of camellia.
Definitely similar but Camelia leaves 'should' alternate along the stem
these are more clustered but shape, size and glossy like camelia.
Like I said we've never seen flowers on this tree.
Camelia leaves have a serrated edge...
It's not prominent but it definitely eliminates camellia, lol
For sure...
You can get anything you wan at Alice's Restaurant.............except maybe the answer to this mystery, lol
Happy Thanksgiving
I don't know much about Botany, but if I had to venture a guess I might say its quite possibly a Ceratonia siliqua tree?
(Or at least the pods resemble that-- hard to tell because all the debris on them).
Although I don't really Car ob a lot about it...
Not a fruit BTW.
Unfortunately, like most NT users, I still haven't figured out how to use Google.
(Well, in any event, I really don't Car ob much about it really . . . )
But if I had taken the time to figure out how to use google, I would have discovered what the common name for C eratonia siliqua actually is!
and from Cabab another link to " suspicious fruits"
there are some real beauties here, lol
Interesting but weird looking. hahahahaha
If you want really weird-- go to Socotra!
I love weird! Those are worth seeing just to say you've seen it. hahahahahaha
Nasty looking thing. If their yard is overgrown it could be a vine. We have several around here that are pervasive. One is what we call a potato vine. It has big broad leaves and big round potato like things. Hard to get rid of.
I have odd neighbors......this one just returned from Thailand where he has a farm, family and businesses. He stays here as long as he needs to, then goes to Hong Kong then VN, then Thailand and back again, just long enough to keep his various residencies legal.
I climbed a ladder to get as high into the mystery tree as I could and I swear I can see a large vine way up on the far side, but he was out there in a business suit swinging a machete,
clearing the whole yard of vines and weeds which the recent cold snap killed.
First time I seen them clean the yard or do yard work in 5 years.
Not sure what it is but you should kill it with fire. Think of your family!!!!
Remember-- You Can Get Anything You Don't Want at Alice's Restaurant!
"Alice's Restaurant Massacree" (also known as simply "Alice's Restaurant") is a song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant . It is notable as a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, in addition to being a hit song in its own right and an inspiration for the 1969 film also named Alice's Restaurant . The song is Guthrie's most prominent work, based on a true incident from his lifethat began on Thanksgiving Day 1965 with a citation . . . (cont'd)
(Note: this comment may not be off-topic although it might seem to be at first....)
Very Appropriate for Thanksgiving, an old, old favorite album...
So this tree only produced one alien pod that shriveled when exposed to our environment.......
No problema!
After all, you can always get more at that place "where you can get anything you want".
Alice's Restaurant,
!!!
North American honey locust....
Nope, the leaf structure is wrong. Also, the pod of the Honey Locust is flat.
North American honey locust....
Or maybe the Spawn of The Honey Badger!
If you really want to know, take it to the local Ag college or even your county ag extension office. Take one of the branches that you need to prune and the 'alien' pod with you...
Take a better picture of the bark on the trunk too...
I have a Purdue extension close by and I have bugged them with 'mystery' plants on occasion.
... and leaves a 'hair' from the pod on people's Diet Cokes.
SP,
Here's a site that might help. It's called "What Tree is That". My daughter got interested in the article and found this on her phone. It's the link for a PC so you should be able to bring it up with no problem. She tried but was doing it away from your pictures and couldn't remember all of the details (besides that, you've seen them up close and in person; and you've seen the fruit/seed pod when it was new).
Thanks, TTGA
Are you sure the tree produced this fruit and it wasn't from a vine in the tree? That looks like a wild cucumber, the vines last one year but the fruit can hang around for a while. I noted you said your neighbor was hacking and removing vines from around his yard. We have wild cucumbers along a river near us, they don't get that big (shorter growing season), but the insides of the fruit, when dried, look like the pictures you have.
I think we have a winner, lol.
I'm like 99% in agreement
some sort of squash for certain, lol.