Plant ID Help, Please?

[1voyager1]

Part A:

I emptied out our kitchen waste composter to amend the soil for a newly planted tree.
I seem to have acquired a volunteer garden in the process:

I think I see:
1.
A carpet of papaya ??? seedlings:
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...z.jpg.html

2.
A number of what look like tomato plants, but I think they are probably some other Solanaceous type such as various colored bell peppers, egg plant or ???
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...u.jpg.html

3.
A squash or similar looking type:
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...u.jpg.html


Part B:

I have been cutting trails through the "back 40" of our lot to find and locate the hidden corner posts.
As I hacked my way through my "jungle", I found a few things that have drawn my interest:

4.
One thing I have been curious about are the clumps of large sedges that are scattered around our lot. I have seen similar growing in the Volcano N.P.:
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...v.jpg.html
They are big. It is about 7' from the gravel path surface to the top of the tallest blade. My assumption and hope is that they are native.

5.
This is undoubtedly an invasive. But, it also looks like something that would be found sitting in a pot at H.D.:
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...i.jpg.html

6. And finally, this one looks that it will probably grow into a shrub:
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/solo_vo...f.jpg.html

Can anyone help me ID these unknowns?

[Cagary]

Your "HD" plant is Miconia calvescens, a terrible invasive. Please destroy before it develops seed.

-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".

[1voyager1]

Thanks Cagary.
After seeing your post and looking it up, I put my boots back on, went right out and murdered that sucker!
As I was coming back to put it somewhere it would die and not regenerate, I saw a smaller one that had begun growing along my trail.
Grabbed that little sucker too.
Then, I thought I had remembered seeing some elsewhere.
There are several large tree sized ones growing in the undeveloped lot across the road from us.
I might start plotting on killing them also.
We'll see.

[leilaniguy]

#6 is Cecropia, a trash tree.

[1voyager1]

Thanks leilaniguy.
That was my suspicion.
I have already begun a Cecropia pogrom.
Those little ones will not survive.

[Carey]

#1&2 do look like tomato plants, esp. if they have fuzzy 'pubescence' (if not ones you ate, most likely the cherry tomato 'weeds'), #1 looks small papaya as their leaf get more forked as they get bigger, but the picture is a little unclear, and #1&3 squash, looks a lot like the kabocha pumpkin I often get growing in my yard as an unplanted tasty accident

[1voyager1]

I was hoping that the squash [pumpkin] was a kabocha.
We'll see how it develops.
I may transplant it to a more favorable location for it.
it has already begun to develop 2 flowers.

I find it hard to accept that tomatoes have made it into the composter.
But, if they had begun to turn bad, that is exactly where they would have ended up.
I think I may have to start thinning the papayas though.
I will not allow them to compete in mass with the new rambutan tree.

So, unless anyone disagrees with the above IDs that only leaves the sedge to be ID'd.

[d96778]

The tomato volunteers that came up out of my composer not only were more robust than plants that I've purchased, but they suffered less being unprotected from the rain, & produced so many beautiful Roma type & 3-4 inch round fruits that I was able to can 7 jars from the surplus....all from 5 volunteer plants out of my composer. I can't wait for this year's volunteers!

Dee

[Rene Siracusa]

Your #4 "sedge" could be uki grass, but hard to tell without seeing the seed heads, which would be brown and black. Wait for it to form seed heads and then take a closeup photo and ask us again. It it's uki grass it is native and should be kept.

[1voyager1]

Thanks Rene,
I looked up Uki Grass and found it ID'd as Cladium jamaicense [Saw Grass].
I'm pretty sure that or something closely related is it.
I call it a sedge because of the shape, form and coloration of the long, dark, drooping seed tassel.
It looks like one of the smaller sedges I'm used to seeing on steroids.
From its species name, I would think that it's not native.
There is an Uki'uki Grass, Dianella sandwicensis, that is native.
This is not that one.

@ Da Kine
I'm amazed at how fast the kabocha and tomatoes are growing.
I'm used to seeing these types planted in a northern tier state in the spring with warming days and cool nights.
These are growing like weeds.
They might end up competing severely with the rambutan seedling they're growing around.
I just pulled all the papaya seedlings out as I have others growing elsewhere.