Not CP but it appeared from sphagnum moss

[Cindy]

Any idea? TIA!

 

[Taliesin-DS]

Birch

 

[boxofrain]

looks like a nice little tree for a bonsai.
I have a small terrarium on my desk with a "yard harvested" Douglas Fir.

 

[mass]

oh geez.. I can really contribute to this thread. When I wake up..

 

[Cthulhu138]

It's a maple seedling. I have to pull tons of these out of my bogs every year.

 

[Taliesin-DS]

I dont think its maple, they look different imho.
im 90% sure its a downy, silver birch or a natural hybrid of those 2.
10% chance its an alder.

 

[scottychaos]

I also say "maple"
the instant I saw the photo, I thought "maple" with no hesitation.
I will say...97.3% sure!

maple seedlings often have leaves that look different from the "mature" leaves.
so its not surprising that one leaf doesnt look like a maple right now..(but actually, it does.)

based on the red trunk, and the leaf shape, its probably a "Red maple"
Acer rubrum
(which is not the maple that has solid red leaves, that is a "Canadian Red maple" or a "Red Norway Maple"..the regular "Red maple" has red stems, and green leaves)

let it put out a few more more leaves, and post a photo again in a few weeks..
im willing to bet it will look much more "maple-ish" very soon!

Scot

 

[Taliesin-DS]

i hope you're wrong, or else you just made me look stupid
It does look a lot like the birches/alders i get all the time from spag and not much like acer pseudoplatanus and campestre. (those are the only seedlings we got here)

 

[Cthulhu138]

I'm with scotty, maple. If you pull it out, you might still be able to see the little "heilcopter" seed.

 

[elgecko]

I'm not sure that it's a maple.

Since it came out of the sphagnum I was thinking a bog type plant.
My guess a cranberry plant: Viburnum edule

 

[Cthulhu138]

Ha, it's definitely NOT cranberry. I grow tons of cranberry in my bogs and that's not it.

 

[elgecko]

Ha, it's definitely NOT cranberry. I grow tons of cranberry in my bogs and that's not it.

Viburnum edule is not a true cranberry. It's a squashberry sometimes referred as highbush cranberry.

More info on the plant here: http://www.northernontarioflora.ca/description.cfm?speciesid=1001276

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Oh boy. Just realized this post is from Cindy, who's in Singapore.
Now I need to ask, where's the sphagnum from?
The plant I have shown grow in Canada and the very northern US states.

 

[Cindy]

Hi Steven,

The moss you see in the breadbox is from USA, which part, I am not sure. However, the plant appeared soon after the moss arrived.

Now it is looking like this.

 

[zlookup]

looking more like a maple by the second it would seem. it's beginning to get the the characteristic shape of its adult leaves.