So that Melissa can have a good night’s sleep
Over in the comments, Melissa said:
Resident botanist here. What are the little green flowers? Are they falling off a tree, or growing on a stem arising from the soil? Do they have leaves on the plant? Give me more pictures–I’m compelled to know . . . I may not sleep . . . I mean, really . . . Don’t just put up a picture like that and then go talk about writing . . . c’mon.
They’re not coming from the ground, they are definitely from UP. And they’ve dropped those little green flowers in the hundreds, where I found them on the ground and on my bench.
Here they are, still on the plant:
they pop off the branch easily
Upon investigation, I find that they are a vine.
in vertical mode
I believe we have more than one sort clambering up the trees at the back border of the condo property.
yep. Vines.
Lots of vines in the back margin, including one example that had been in place so long that its main stalk was two inches in diameter. It was strangling our beloved cedar tree, so I executed it on advice of a pal who used to be a landscape architect.
beheaded in a good cause
I can’t swear that the monster vine is the same as the pretty-green-flowers vine, since the monster no longer blooms, but only exists as a macabre skeleton plant embracing our cedar. But, could be…
