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Does anyone know what plant this is?
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We need Peanut right now!
Exactly my thought.
@Peanut Here's a call for you.
@calebj There is an app call "picture this" that you snap a pix and it tells you what the plant is. I lost it from my phone and can't make it get back on there - kinda annoying.
 
Exactly my thought.
@Peanut Here's a call for you.
@calebj There is an app call "picture this" that you snap a pix and it tells you what the plant is. I lost it from my phone and can't make it get back on there - kinda annoying.
My debit card has recently been compromised otherwise I would have tried that. Until I get a new card…..
 
Does anyone know what plant this is?
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Guys I have found the answer. It has several names, a few being bursting heart, hearts a busting, and strawberry bush. It is poisonous to humans but birds can be found eating it.
 
A friend had this growing in the woods on his twenty acres.
It is poisonous, berries & leaf if I remember correctly.

Culture
Easily grown in moist, rich, humusy, well-drained soils in part shade. Best with some afternoon shade. Thrives in sun-dappled conditions. Tolerant of close to full shade. Will naturalize in optimum growing conditions but is not considered invasive. Spreads by rhizomes. Stems will root at the nodes where they touch the ground.
Noteworthy Characteristics
Euonymus americanus, commonly known as strawberry bush, is a multi-stemmed, suckering, deciduous shrub that typically grows to 4-6’ tall. It is native to wooded slopes, moist understory forest areas, low sandy woods, ravines and streambanks from New York south to Florida and west through Pennsylvania to Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and eastern Texas. Range in Missouri is limited to the far southeastern corner of the State including Crowleys Ridge and the Bootheel.
This shrub is somewhat sprawling when young, but becomes more erect as it matures. It features green stems, medium green leaves with fine marginal teeth, inconspicuous 5-petaled greenish-yellow flowers from the leaf axils in May-June and warty crimson red fall fruits purportedly resembling strawberries hence the common name of strawberry bush. Thin spreading branches are clad with oblong to elliptic leaves (to 3” long) with crenulate margins, narrow to rounded bases and sharply pointed tips. Each leaf has 5-7 pairs of ascending veins which disappear prior to reaching the margins. Leaves turn dark orange-red in fall. Spring flowers bloom from the leaf axils on pedicils to 1” long. Each flower (1/3” across) has 5 pale green to greenish yellow petals with purple stamens. Most flowers in the genus have 4 petals, but this species has 5. Although the flowers are not showy, they are followed in fall by extremely showy, warty, crimson red fall fruits (to 3/4” diameter). Each fruit is a 5-lobed capsule which splits open when ripe (hence the sometimes used common name of bursting heart)

Genus name is an ancient Greek name referring to plants of this genus.

Specific epithet means native to America.
 

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