A seed pod of some sort .. This is some sort of seed pod I found yesterday while walking my dog. The first two are close-ups front and back, and the next two are 1X macros front and...

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

This is some sort of seed pod I found yesterday while walking my dog. The first two are close-ups front and back, and the next two are 1X macros front and back.

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Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Looks very much like a Datura seedpod.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

jackm1943 wrote:

This is some sort of seed pod I found yesterday while walking my dog. The first two are close-ups front and back, and the next two are 1X macros front and back.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

jackm1943 wrote:

This is some sort of seed pod I found yesterday while walking my dog. The first two are close-ups front and back, and the next two are 1X macros front and back.

Looks a lot like Jimson Weed. One popped up under our bird feeder last summer. NOTHING would eat it, not even the deer, which around here eat anything and everything. The birds would not land on it for any reason, and it was right under the feeder.

Supposedly it's an invasive species weed not to be tolerated. I have a whole jar of the seeds I collected last year. Not sure why.
Had to wear thick leather gloves to touch the seed pods, which are sharp and tough.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

BigDaddy wrote:

Looks a lot like Jimson Weed. One popped up under our bird feeder last summer. NOTHING would eat it, not even the deer, which around here eat anything and everything. The birds would not land on it for any reason, and it was right under the feeder.

Supposedly it's an invasive species weed not to be tolerated. I have a whole jar of the seeds I collected last year. Not sure why.
Had to wear thick leather gloves to touch the seed pods, which are sharp and tough.

Datura is toxic and hallucinogenic -- bad stuff: "All Datura plants contain tropane alkaloids such as scopolamine and atropine...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Absolutely Super Fantastic..!

Stan Wieg Loc: Fair Oaks, CA

Big Daddy is right. Georgia OKeefe did a famous painting of the large white trumpet shaped flower. I had a couple in the yard just to have a showy flower that the dang deer wouldn’t eat.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

BigDaddy wrote:

Looks a lot like Jimson Weed. One popped up under our bird feeder last summer. NOTHING would eat it, not even the deer, which around here eat anything and everything. The birds would not land on it for any reason, and it was right under the feeder.

Supposedly it's an invasive species weed not to be tolerated. I have a whole jar of the seeds I collected last year. Not sure why.
Had to wear thick leather gloves to touch the seed pods, which are sharp and tough.

I think you and Ysarex are correct about this being Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) after looking at pics on the web. Don't think I've ever seen or noticed it before in my 78 years. I know right where I found this dried out seed pod and am anxious to check it out this spring.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Architect1776 wrote:

Thanks for checking in Architect1776.
JackM

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

sippyjug104 wrote:

Absolutely Super Fantastic..!

Thank you very much Sippy.
JackM

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Stan Wieg wrote:

Big Daddy is right. Georgia OKeefe did a famous painting of the large white trumpet shaped flower. I had a couple in the yard just to have a showy flower that the dang deer wouldn’t eat.

Thanks Stan. I walk my dog in the area quite frequently and don't remember seeing any flowers like that. I will look more carefully this spring.
JackM

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

jackm1943 wrote:

I think you and Ysarex are correct about this being Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) after looking at pics on the web. Don't think I've ever seen or noticed it before in my 78 years. I know right where I found this dried out seed pod and am anxious to check it out this spring.

I'ma couple years younger than you and I don't recall ever seeing it before either. The deer ate the first 10 feet of the evergreen trees along our border. Stuff deer supposedly don't eat, and the first 50 years the trees were there, they didn't. The wife wanted me to plant these devils all along the border under the trees as a hedge so to speak, since I doubt the deer will eat them, and hopefully die if they do. I've come to hate deer, even though they are beautiful creatures. Since JimsonWeed is considered an invasive species, I probably will throw the seeds away.

I cut off about 50+ seed pods from the one plant figuring the squirrels would get hurt if they stepped on the horrible needles. Each pod has like 100's seeds.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Beautiful photos, regardless of which plant.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Nicely done but nasty!

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

BigDaddy wrote:

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I'm not a big fan of deer either, one because they eat a lot of the mushrooms I like to photograph, and two because I've accidently hit and killed two in the past with my cars.