Plant ID Help

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

You could join FB Hawaii tropical landscape and gardening. 

Thanks, I checked their page but it’s not viewable by the general public.  I’m not on Facebook, and I'm not sure what it would take for me to join.  

[kalianna]

HOTPE, try this link. I'm not on Facebook either but I can view the site. I don't think it will help you since you have to have a Facebook acct. to post, but interesting site anyway.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/127197321932/

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Thanks kalianna!
That link does work for me.  Yes, I’ll be glad to see what other gardeners have posted.

[descodave]

Could your 1st picture/plant be lantana?

[Punalani]

Last week my son introduced me to an app, picturethis plant identifier, is 98% accurate in identifying plants with your phone. I have what I thought was a nasty, thorny weed on my property is actually raspberries. Must be from bird droppings.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picturethi...1252497129

I haven’t tried the PictureThis app, but have used the PlantSnap app on my iPhone with some success. I’m not affiliated with PlantSnap, just a happy occasional user.

PlantSnap is (was?j free and works on plant photos you’ve taken on your smartphone.  I have the “pro” version of the app, and it was only a few more bucks (one-time cost).

More info about PlantSnap on their website:
https://www.plantsnap.com/who-we-are/

EDIT: I just noticed that the PlantSnap app pricing structure has changed since I got it some 5 years ago.  At that time, as I recall, the app was offered as “free” and the “pro” version which I opted for, was only about 4bucks. It appears that prices have gone up - significantly. Your milage may vary - just to be clear.  Sorry!    All the best!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Could... be lantana?

I didn’t realize there were so many varieties of ornamental white lantana.  The leaf is very similar, but lantana flowers are generally rounded with four petals.  While I was looking through the photos, Google included a 5 petal star shaped flower with the same leaf shape.  It’s a penta, and I think that’s what I have.  My plants are growing in shade, and cultivation instructions note that pentas do best in sun or partial shade.  Perhaps my plants get enough sun in the morning and afternoon.
Thanks descodave!

A few photos:
https://www.parkswholesaleplants.com/spr...fly-white/

[Sam Son]

#1 appears to be Pentas lanceolata, so named for its five petals.  Pentas also come in colors from lilac to magenta.  When jammed together into a bouquet, these invasive weeds are known to make gentlewomen swoon.


Even low-resolutions photographs I try to post come up with the message that the file is too large.  Is there any way to get around this?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Pentas also come in colors from lilac to magenta.
I stopped at Home Depot last week and exiting the garden center there they were, pentas in all the colors you mentioned.

... message that the file is too large.
With Windows right click the photo and in the drop down menu click "Edit."  One of your photo programs should open and you can resize the photo there.
I think in Apple, on an iPad you can choose sm-med-lrg sizes, if I remember correctly.

[Olohana 1790]

the first plant you have pictured is non native pentas, pink white or red kine are found wild near Kolekole and Hakalau Bay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentas_lanceolata

[Olohana 1790]

Last week my son introduced me to an app, picturethis plant identifier, is 98% accurate in identifying plants with your phone. I have what I thought was a nasty, thorny weed on my property is actually raspberries. Must be from bird droppings.

aloha..... Any wild raspberry family plant on your property below 3,000' elevation/Glenwood WILL BE a nasty thorny WEED!  ie Mauritius Raspberry, Himalayan raspberry, Florida Blackberry, etc. 

the only raspberry that isn't a weed or invasive with thorns etc. is the endemic thornless Akala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_hawaiensis

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apps are lazy.. you dont learn from them.... better to just learn the characteristics of the families of plants..... then its easy to get real close, if not the exact species with one set of books...

get some Hawaii plant library books ... ie the big white ones (2 vol set) MANUAL OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF HAWAII
has 95% of all the many thousands of plants found in Hawaii listed (mostly non-native because thats whats here)... the only reason its not higher % is because the book is 25+ yrs old now... and many more invasive species have made it here..

PS. to anyone at Kalani Retreat.. you clowns stole my set of MANUAL OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF HAWAII.. thats $120 you stole from me
by not returning books I loaned your so called 'garden dude' 4 yrs ago (haole guy w/ beard about 45-50 yrs old now).. and playing stupid when Ive ask in person at front desk since.... (4 times Ive asked and left my number) shame! or at least let me go look for them myself up at your so called nursery...