Another donated plant for the sale this weekend. It was marked as a Japanese Maple, but when I do an online search, I really don't see leaves exactly like this one. So, is it really a Japanese Maple? If so, is there a specific variety? Thanks in advance! Japanese Maple? ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden )
I only have until Wednesday to get it ID'd and labeled. It supposedly came from a nursery, surely they wouldn't have screwed up that bad?
Yep, they did. It is a castor bean plant. Take it back and ask them for a maple if that is what you are supposed to have gotten.
I don't know where it came from, it was donated. So I'm not out of anything, just don't want to sell something mislabeled. So glad I just didn't believe them!
If it was a locally owned nursery they reused pots and didn't bother or forgot to relabel them. The big box store garden centers are bad about mislabeling plants too but that is usually due to the sales people not knowing which plant is what.
Or the guy donating it labeled it... it was left over from his church's plant sale. Either way... THANKS! I don't ever want to pass along something that is mislabeled.
Those leaves do look so much like a Japanese Maple; like mine, which is a Bloodgood. But I have to agree that it isn't. The leaves are so much wider, and it doesn't look like a little tree, the stem is different. A Castor Bean is not worth near as much as a Jap Maple either!!
Yes Kay... good point about the value... I'd feel doubly bad. :'( But like Toni said... good thing I have you all here at the 'Stew!
Cheryl, you may want to put a warning on that plant. All parts are toxic to small mammals and to fowl. According to the U. of Illinois: Donated or not, I'd hesitate to include it in the sale.
I did put a warning about it being poisonous, but I think I'll add more detail like what you sent.... just so they know for sure what they are getting. Some people really like that plant, so I don't have a problem putting it in the sale... but with WARNING. Thanks for the details and the concern.
I am one of those people who enjoy castor bean plants. They are so outlandish, they lend a tropical feel to planters or garden beds.
