Could have used that bit of local lore last year. Had moles everywhere, wreaked havoc with the garden tunnelling right under the mulch down each tilled row. Eventually got rid of them through trapping and haven't seen any this year.
Random Pictures Thread
- Thread starter ripjack13
- Start date
I haven't been up to Florissant in many years, but have driven by that area many, many times while heading up into the mountains. Really nice drive.
The pods with the stickers/fuzz or whatever you call them, are those the bean pods or are they just flowers? I've seen and collected a bunch of Caster Beans here in Tucson. I don't think the seed pods looked like what is seen in your picture. What's funny about the Castor Bean here is they are usually planted on the grounds around law offices, some schools, medical and health care centers. I've never seen them in any of my customers yards. It's a good looking tree, and the pods here look just like bean or pea pods with bright red seeds when ripe. ............ Nubs
The spiny balls are the seed pods. The spines are soft and flexible while growing, but when mature, dry up and become hard. As the pods dry on the plant, they will eventually split open and expell the seeds several feet.
The round(ish) pods have three carpals (and three seeds). They aren't a true bean at all, member of a different family. Just called bean as the seed is somewhat similar in appearance.
What you are collecting locally is probably not a true castor bean if it has pods that look like beans or peas. Hard to tell with the way regional names develop.
They are a short lived perennial in warm climates, but are grown as annuals here. In fact, these are all volunteers from last year's plants. In warm climates, they can get to 40 ft tall after. several years growth.
Here is an article from Wisconsin Extension with some pictures and descriptions of the plants.
Castor Bean, <em>Ricinus communis</em>
Looking to add drama to your landscape? Castor bean is a fast-growing tender perennial with huge leaves that can be used as a seasonal annual in cooler climates. Choose from a number of varieties of this East African native selected for their ornamental value to make a bold statement in your...
hort.extension.wisc.edu
Last edited:
I guess I'm gonna hafta go into town and look for some plants in the fall looking for some beans to compare yours to mine. Right now I don't know where the plants/trees are. CRS taking it's toll. .............. Nubs
Are the trees any good for woodworking? ChuckThe spiny balls are the seed pods. The spines are soft and flexible while growing, but when mature, dry up and become hard. As the pods dry on the plant, they will eventually split open and expell the seeds several feet.
The round(ish) pods have three carpals (and three seeds). They aren't a true bean at all, member of a different family. Just called bean as the seed is somewhat similar in appearance.
What you are collecting locally is probably not a true castor bean if it has pods that look like beans or peas. Hard to tell with the way regional names develop.
They are a short lived perennial in warm climates, but are grown as annuals here. In fact, these are all volunteers from last year's plants. In warm climates, they can get to 40 ft tall after. several years growth.
Here is an article from Wisconsin Extension with some pictures and descriptions of the plants.
Castor Bean, <em>Ricinus communis</em>
Looking to add drama to your landscape? Castor bean is a fast-growing tender perennial with huge leaves that can be used as a seasonal annual in cooler climates. Choose from a number of varieties of this East African native selected for their ornamental value to make a bold statement in your...
I have not worked them, but told similar to balsa but pithier. Another guy told me it was like working a large sunflower stock. I have done that either.
I just find it so very odd that being a source of a poison, so many schools and parks grow them.
We had a couple in our back yard when I was little in Chula Vista, CA and my parents drilled it into us not to mess with it because it was poisonous. I think my Dad took them out within the first year. We had a dog too which was another and probably bigger concern. I remember them looking like the one Tim posted, with the spiky balls with 3 shiny black seeds inside.
Last edited:
City View from Roosevelt Island..,..
Think they would make some cool puzzles.
Not in grayscale, ya don't! You are an evil man!
My wife said the same thing when I showed her the pictures.
Find 5 things (or more) that are wrong in this picture. Guys were loading this while we were mowing across the street.
Only thing I see is they’re strapping it down before they load what’s left on the ground still!!
They have 1 reasonably inflated tire, I think they are good to add more!
They have 1 reasonably inflated tire, I think they are good to add more!Looks to me like they have done that before! Based on the bend in the frame of their 7000 pound load limit trailer which is tongue loaded to well over the recommended 600 pounds. Fun to watch, not fun to follow this low rider...
Other than a flat tire on the trailer, and a truck hitch compromised, and the trailer tongue not supportive of the weight, and the trailer itself compromised in the front sector, and the use of straps that are undoubtedly not rated for that kind of lateral tension, the only other thing I see is that those logs are not rolled over to your place for future woodworking projects! Chuck
WOW....somebody feed that guy. Looks like Mr. Skinny took an old RV frame and made a trailer. However, looks like as Frank said, to have 3,500 pound axles. Is that a class1 receiver on the truck? Good to 1,000 pounds. Oh what a field day DOT would have. Tic, ya got to pray for this one....
@woodtickgreg
@woodtickgreg
Last edited:
it's a chevy, that's the problem that sticks out like a sore thumb,
oh and you were mowing inside the garage?
Last edited:
I was just about to share my shock that everyone missed the most obvious, but you nailed it!
It looks like the bumper is going to fall off the truck