Need help identifying plant/weed

[Beefy]

Does anybody know what this is??

it gets super tall and then flops over in an arch b/c of the weight of all these waxy seed pods.

 

[ga. prime]

Never seen that before. Looks like an import. How's it taste?

 

[Beefy]

i havent tasted it but its been here ever since i have been. it has white/yellowish flowers in the spring and then these vibrant red/blue waxy spike of seedpods in the fall. they have sort of a tuberous taproot.

 

[ga. prime]

That's a strange looking thing. Maybe somebody can id it. I'd like to know myself what it is. It's not in my "Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses" book.

 

[Horticattleman]

Just to let you know I'm still working on this dadburn thing! Thanks Beefy! :roll: ;-)

 

[Beefy]

me too. thanks Hort!

if it helps the leaves are (i think) whorled with 4 leaves at each node.

 

[Crowderfarms]

Looks somewhat like a wild coffee plant.

 

[peg4x4]

Sure pretty,whatever it is..

 

[John G.]

It looks like a Hoya. Normally it is a house plant. You must be where it does not freeze

John

 

[Beefy]

It looks like a Hoya. Normally it is a house plant. You must be where it does not freeze

John

it does look like a hoya, but its not a vine. it grows on a big fat stalk that gets about 9 feet high, and then bends over due to all the heavyness of the whatever those are. the red is not the flower, flower is white in spring. we usually only have a few "hard" freezes.

 

[Beefy]

Thanks to HippieRancher for helping me solve the mystery. The plant is Clerodendrum indicum or "TubeFlower" or "Turk's Turban".

http://www.floridata.com/ref/C/cler_ind.cfm

closure is good!

 

[ga. prime]

Good work solving the puzzle hippierancher and beefy!