Today’s photo is part of the ongoing "what the heck is it?" series. As you can see, there’s a shoot emerging from a brown mass:
What’s the brown mass? And what is the shoot emerging from it? Answers and more photos Monday!
Mystery shoot
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Linda Chalker-Scott
Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate associate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets. Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest effort is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019). In 2018 Linda was featured in a video series – The Science of Gardening – produced by The Great Courses. She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages. Linda’s contribution to gardeners was recognized in 2017 by the Association for Garden Communicators as the first recipient of their Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award. "The Garden Professors" Facebook page - www.facebook.com/TheGardenProfessors "The Garden Professors" Facebook group - www.facebook.com/groups/GardenProfessors Books: http://www.sustainablelandscapesandgardens.com View all posts by Linda Chalker-Scott
at first I was thinking that it was bamboo coming up through a weed fabric. But I couldn’t quite get why there was soil around the edge. Then it hit me. It’s a coconut. You have successfully sprouted a coconut
My first thought was a palm stem, but the brown mass baffled me. Then I thought it might be staghorn fern, but the stem doesn’t quite fit. Ed’s answer sounds like a good one, and makes sense, I think.
Looks like a coconut sprout to me.
Hmm, I saw an awful lot of objects like that littering the beach on my honeymoon on the southern tip of the Yucatan… 🙂
I’ll fifth a coconut. Mmmmm, coconuts. Liquid endosperm gold.
It’s the infant-tree. Yep, it’s a coconut with a sprout.