Winter update and further experiments with seeds

Readers might be wondering what has happened to my veggie patch – the last few posts I have focused on hikes and seed experimentation. My small veggie patch is doing as well as it can with the limited sunlight it gets. Here’s what it looks like:

I have laid out the traditional Japanese “wara” (straw) between the onion seedlings to protect them against frost, and a tunnel over cabbages and fava beans. Because of the poor sunlight in winter, growth is rather slow. I have plans to rent additional space to grow vegetables and flowers and am likely to grow busier outdoors from spring onward.

I did consider using reflecting material to redirect sunlight on the windows of the upper storeys of my house on to the veggie patch, but in the meanwhile, I found a site about a 15-minute drive from my house that would serve both as a work place (for my translation work) and with adequate space for gardening!

I have made rough plans too, on what to plant at the new location, and this will be the topic of another post.

Last week I visited my friend’s (Utiyama-san) garden and was presented with several kinds of seeds from the plants in the garden.

Japanese Quince fruit with seeds

The first was a “Boke” (Japanese Quince) fruit that revealed gleaming black seeds. This is a flowering tree that yields a fruit (astringent, so I didn’t try to eat it). It appears that one can use the Boke plants for bonsai too, so I promptly planted four of these in my vinyl pots containing seed mix. Let’s see whether they’ll root.

Rose hip of the Rosa laevigata (Cherokee rose)

I cut open the thorny rose hip carefully and found 3 large seeds and several hairlike seeds with black dot. Are these baby seeds that will grow? I’m not sure. I retained these also and am looking for further information. If you do have photos or information on what the seeds of a Cherokee rose look like, do send them to me.

 

 Hawthorn – a member of the rose family

I also picked up a few berry-like seeds from a plant growing in his garden said to give cheery flowers in summer. I didn’t catch the Japanese name at first, so I took the photo with the seeds above and posted it to him for confirmation. Learnt that the name in Japanese was “sanzashi” which translates to Hawthorn. Planted all five of the hard seeds and am eagerly awaiting results.

Japanese Sarcandra (“Senryou”)

Finally, the seeds of the Japanese Sarcandra – a plant that yields red berries in winter and is typically found in many Japanese houses and gardens. This plant is supposedly difficult to grow from seeds – so I’ll be delighted to see any sign of life in the coming weeks.

 

Have a nice day!

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New Year Hike

My next hike with friends was to Takagoyama on a glorious day bathed in sunlight. At several vantage points, we had a fine view of Mount Fuji. This is surprising because Mount Fuji is more than 100 km (60 miles) as the crow files from the hike location. Mount Fuji, if I’m not mistaken, is the only tallest mountain (about 3000 m) in Japan and can be seen from various distant locations, and even from certain locations in Tokyo!

Snow-capped Mount Fuji towering over the Yokohama-Kawasaki-Tokyo coastline from a vantage point during the hike

I was told that on a clear, cloudless day, the view of Mt. Fuji from Takagoyama was breathtaking. I was happy nonetheless, to have a fairly good view. Here is another shot from the top of a hill during the hike.

Another view of the snow-capped Mt. Fuji

The glorious views from different points during the hike kept us all in good spirits. As we climbed chatting with each other happily, I picked up some plants this time that I was almost about to tread on. I took care to ensure that there were an adequate number of plants in the vicinity, and those that I picked were at unobtrusive locations. One plant taken away from the forests would not affect the environment nor cause other hikers to miss the plant; besides, I intend to propagate them and give them away to friends (There! I got that out of my mind and I can sleep easy now )

Wild berry

Picked this plant with the root from a dense bush and promptly planted it in a planter after returning home. The berry is edible and has a pleasant slightly sour taste.

Aoki (Japanese Aucuba)

Gives red berries in winter and has leaves similar to that of the holly. The entire hill was covered with Aoki trees – it appears that the leaves of this plant were used as cattle feed in winter a long time ago.

Shrine built into the sheer rock at the peak of Mt.Takagoyama

We reached the peak after about three hours and found a delightful shrine built into the sheer rock face. There were mats in the shrine for weary hikers that we spread on the floor. Some of the experienced hikers wanted to do an other steep climb of about 20 minutes from the shrine to a vantage point giving a clear view of the surrounding hills. I accompanied them and got some more shots of Mt. Fuji and the surrounding hills.

Yet another view of Mt. Fuji

 

We got back to the shrine and got out our packed lunches. We had a great time sharing food and I especially enjoyed some of the Japanese pickles made from various vegetables that were passed around by friends. After resting for about 30 minutes, we started the descent. 

 

We came across a small waterfall and passed lots of maple trees – the leaves of most of the trees had already dropped off. The path was covered with red maple leaves and I felt like walking on a plush carpet. I managed to find one small unobtrusive maple, and  took it home and planted it.

I am sure that once winter has passed, these plants will grow. Until then, I have placed them indoors and am watering them carefully. 

 

Maple – planted in a planter

 

 

 

Here are some updates:

Clockwise from top: Persimmon, apple, cyclamen, hibiscus

One of the persimmon seeds germinated, and one apple seed too. I’m delighted. I’ll do my best to nurse them through winter. I’m pretty sure once spring arrives, they’ll grow tall and healthy. I also bought a cyclamen from the nursery and hope to see it through to spring and next year too. Of the two Hibiscus seeds, the second one has also rooted – so that’s a 100% success rate.

Until the next post, have a great day!

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Experimenting with seeds

December has been a month of experimentation. It was time to plant all the seeds that I had collected during fall in India and Japan. I carefully selected two to three of various fruits and flower seeds that I had assiduously collected and arranged them in my seed planter as below, and charted the description of sheets in an Excel sheet.

 

Seeds arranged and ready for sowing

 

Unknown (2)	Hibiscus (2)	Beach (1)	Persimmon (2) + Camelia 1	Komatsuna (7)	Beach (2)
Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 13	Dec. 3
Donguri (1)	Donguri (1)	Curry Leaf (2)	Saradana	Komatsuna (7)	Orange (3)
Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 13	Dec. 13	Dec. 3
Donguri (S)(2)	Camelia (2)	Sapota (2)	Nadeshiko (5)	Komatsuna (7)	Sweet lime (2)
Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 3	Dec. 13	Dec. 3

Chart corresponding to photo above showing details of seeds sown  Name (No. of seeds) and date planted

Covered the entire arrangement with a plastic lid having a few holes and kept them at room temperature.

I had picked up some seeds on the beach at Izu – I have no idea where they have come from (first row columns with the captions “Unknown” and “Beach”). Maybe they have been carried across the ocean or have been thrown overboard from a ship.

I had picked up some orange, sweet lime and Sapota (a delicious fruit in India) seeds on my trip to India. Others are from various locations in Japan (Hibiscus; from my trip to the Izu Peninsula).

 

To my delight,  I found young saplings appearing after about a week. I was happy with the germination of Hibiscus, which I promptly removed and placed in a separate container. This plant grows in frost-free environment to several meters in height, and I’m hoping to grow it in a large planter, so that I can move it within the house when it gets too cold. Hibiscus is a popular plant in the islands of Okinawa, where the weather is much warmer than in the rest of Japan generally. It would be wonderful if I can raise these in the colder climate of Kisarazu. I also found that another Hibiscus seed has germinated after I removed the first one to its own small pot. Isn’t it exciting to grow plants from seeds?

 

Hibiscus – hoping for safe passage through the winter                  Ginger lily like plant (below)

 

I had picked up a few seeds of a pink flowering plant, which resembled the Ginger Lily in Mumbai, India. One fine day, I found this seed had germinated and shot up quite quickly. Again, I promptly took it off from the seed pot and gave this plant its own new home.

I found that it was important to transplant it as soon as the sapling is capable of being transplanted. This encourages growth of the seeds remaining in the pot. I found another seed germinating soon after I transplanted this Ginger Lily-like sapling. 

 

                                                                

Encouraged by the success of the above seeds, I bought a plastic trays, filled them with used ubiquitous plastic pots in which plants are sold, filled them with seed mix and started off with other kinds of seeds. Note I have no idea whether any will germinate, but I’m sure some of them will!

GulMohar (2)	Rose (2)	La France (Pear)(4)	La France (Pear)(5)		Green Peas	Green Peas	Noibara (Wild rose)	Manryou (Coral Ardisia)
Dec. 4	Dec. 4	Dec. 4	Dec. 4		Dec.13	Dec.13	Dec.13	Dec.13
Like GulMohar	Papaya (small)	Camelia (2)	Nasturtium (2)		Green Peas	Green Peas	Bittersweet(4)	Red seeds
(Orange (4))		Dec. 8	Dec. 9				Dec.13	Dec.13
Dec. 4	Dec. 4				Dec.13	Dec.13
Dates (2)	Misc. Flwr (2)	Nasturtium (2)	Nasturtium (2)		Yellow flwr (2)	Red seeds (4)	Apple (4)	Senryo (Sarcandra)(4)
Dec. 4	Dec. 4	Dec. 9	Dec. 9		Dec. 14	Dec. 14	Dec. 15	Dec. 15
					(Near canal)	(Near canal)
						(Pink cover)
Ginger like (4)	Grape (4)	Lemon (2)	Apple (4) + Holly (1)		Hair-like seeds (2)	Aoki (Japanese Aucuba) (3)	Tulsi (Holy Basil  (10)	Tulsi (Holy Basil (10)
Dec. 4	Dec. 4	Dec. 4	Dec. 17		Dec. 15	Dec. 15	Dec. 16	Dec. 16
					(Neighbor)

Chart showing details of eight 4×4 pots with various seeds sown in them

 

On Christmas day, I was delighted to find many small green leaves of Holy Basil appear in two of the pots. Holy Basil is a plant with good medicinal properties, too numerous to mention here, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed! If they do grow well, I hope to consume two Holy Basil leaves a day every morning, along with copious amounts of copper water, followed by Pranayama and Yoga.

 

 

 Holy Basil

 

 

I did not expect Persimmon to root; I accidentally poked around the pot with persimmon seeds and found that one of them had rooted. I also found that the root had come out of a hole at the side of the seed. Conclusion – make a slit in hard, flat seeds at the side to accelerate germination. I dug up all the hard seeds I had planted and promptly made nicks at the side using a sharp knife. Let’s see what transpires. It appears that one can rarely expect fruits from a tree grown after planting a seed from the fruit; but hey, its fun watching a plant grow in front of your eyes, and I enjoy growing plants!

 

Komatsuna – transplanted                                                          Avacado – cracking up from top

I have transplated Komatsuna to a planter and have also placed Avacado. I read somewhere that Avacado roots faster if placed in warm water and in bright sunshine.

In addition to the above, green peas and Saradana (spinach) seeds have already germinated. Should any of my readers have more information on the seeds I have planted, on how to improve germination, do comment and show me the way. I’ll be everlastingly indebted to you!

Happy Holidays!

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Japanese maples and red berries

Last Saturday I went for my first hike with a group of hikers to a nearby hills and forest called the “Momiji Road” (Maple Road). Although we were late by about two weeks in witnessing the splash of autumn colors, I did find the remnants of autumn colors pleasing and personally had a good time hiking through woods and observing the vegetation. I focused my attention this time on red berries.

View from top of the hill – Kanozan and the Yokohoma-Kawasaki skyline beyond

Let me share some of the autumn scenes during the hike with you.

Hiking through glorious Japanese maple trees

We walked through in a file delighted at nature’s colors. I wish we had made this two weeks earlier when the autumn leaves were in full array!

Dense concentration of maple leaves

Towering maple

Throughout the hike, I came across various kinds of red berries and picked up some of them.

 

Oriental bittersweet (Tsuru ume modoki in Japanese)

This is a deciduous, climbing, woody plant with clusters of inconspicuous yellowish flowers producing green/yellow fruits which split in Autumn to reveal showy bright red seeds. The Japanese name is “Tsuru ume modoki.” It appears to be an invasive species. Highly ornamental and can be used in wreaths. I’m planning to propagate the plant with the red seeds, but would probably do it in planters.

 

Coral berry or Coral Ardisia (Manryo in Japanese)

On top of the hill was a solitary house where the old man grew all kinds of vegetables and flowers. I found this plant in his sunlit garden. The coral berry is a familiar sight in Japanese gardens in winter. My neighbor has at least ten of them in her gardens. The dark green, serrated leaves are glossy and very attractive. The berries, which hang down in clusters, are quite showy as they ripen and turn to shades of coral and finally bright scarlet. There are similar varieties in Japan called “Senryo” in Japanese (Sarcandra glabra) and “Hyakuryo” (Ardisia crispa) and even “Juryryo” (Japanese ardisia).

 

 I found many of these shrubs growing by the sides of the hills as we walked the narrow paths. Called the “Aoki” in Japanese, the bright red berries lit up the surroundings. I picked a few and hope to propagate this plant.

According to Wikipedia:

“They are evergreen shrubs or small trees 2-13 m tall, similar in appearance to the laurels of the genus Laurus, having glossy, leathery leaves, and are sometimes mistakenly called laurels.

 

Japanese Aucuba (Photo courtsey: Wikipedia)

Rosa Multiflora (Japanese name “Noibara”)

Found this plant too growing in the wild and picked up a few branches. Rosa multiflora is grown as an ornamental plant. It is also used as rootstock for grafting roses. I’m not sure how well it propagates, but I intend to try with the seeds I picked up!

Until the next post, here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and season’s greetings!

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Lotuses and orchids

This post is a “filler” to publish photos of some great flowers that I saw at the Botanical Park called Banana Vani-en in Izu Peninsula, Japan, and share them with you. The Botanical Park hosted some wonderful specimens of tropical plants. I was most impressed by lotuses and orchids and had a field day clicking them. Check out the last photo of this post too – I’d like to know the name of the plant and need your assistance. I have a chart identifying most of the lotuses that I have shown here – so ask for the names if you need them. Here are the orchids first:

Now here are the lotuses:

 

I felt a great sense of peace and happiness in the botanical park and wished I could have spent some more time! Needless to say, I was the last visitor to pass out of the gates of the park!

Finally, here’s an extraordinary plant with a purple flower that seemed to be growing from the tip of a pink leaf. Can you identify the flower?

Have a great day!

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my winter garden

My visit to India for two months from August to October threw awry the plans for planting seeds for autumn and winter.  This year’s offerings are a little unplanned, but sometimes such plans turn out to be just wonderful.

Christmas cactus this year (see photo below for comparison)

Firstly, the Christmas Cactus did not disappoint me this year too. They are in full bloom now.

Christmas Cactus last year behind our cat who insisted on showing up on camera!

On comparison, this year has a lot many blooms and looks fuller this year.

The camelias are doing very well bordering the edge of our parking lot as the photo below shows.

Sasanqua camelias bordering our parking lot

I found one camelia plant that had blooms slightly different than the others – it looked more like a Rose of Sharon. These were planted when we moved into our house and I noticed it this year.

Camelias – the one on the left is different from the others (right)

I plan to take cuttings of the camelia plant on the left and propagate them next spring.

Pansies, violas, alyssums

With the hostas drying up and shedding all their leaves (see upper right corner for remnants), I planted some flowers that would last the winter and brighten up the place.

 

Winter veggie patch

Here are my winter veggies. These include cabbage, broccolli, lettuce, sugar snap peas, and onions (those thin weedy plants at the right corner). Yes, I have planted onions for the first time, and hope to harvest them in June next year. The cabbages and broccolli have been planted at one to two-week delays for staggered harvest.

Another view of veggie patch

This view shows a small “hot house” that I got last week to store all my propagated plants. This was the largest one I could manage given the space! I really need to get a larger garden – and am looking out to hire some space!

 

 Now in bloom!

Clockwise from top – pansy, alyssum, lantana, geranium

I also tried to use white as the theme and put together seasonal flowers and placed them at the entrance of my house. Let’s see how they turn out!

Next post – flowers from the botanical garden in the Izu Peninsula!

Happy gardening!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rose garden and orange orchard in the Izu peninsula

Orange Orchard

Last week, the entire family spent the weekend at the hot spa resort of Atagawa, Izu Peninsula in Japan. We visited a wonderful rose garden and an orange orchard. The orchard was a “mikan gari” which means you pay a fixed charge and they give you a pair of scissors that you take with you and pick any number of oranges you want and eat them on the spot! The charge per head was a reasonable 400 yen (about 4.5 dollars).

View from the orange orchard overlooking the sea and the island of Oshima in the distance

Pick as many as you like but eat ‘em!

Delicious oranges waiting to be picked and eaten!

The trees were planted in a terraced garden – it appears that these oranges don’t like cold, and such an arrangement is quite suitable for growing oranges, so the owner told me.

This was a fun place and I like the concept. The owner does not need labor to pick oranges, the visitors would gladly pay the reasonable charge and have a good time eating as many oranges as they like – a mutually-beneficial arrangement. The owner even picked us up from the railway station and dropped us back after the visit. We had a great time at this orchard. Japan has various “eat-as-much-as-you-like” orchards including strawberry, pear, grapes and so on.

 

Rose Garden

We visited the Bagatelle Park, about 10 minutes by bus from Kawazu station in the afternoon. It was opened, in a tie-up with the park of the same name in Paris. Three of the park’s five hectares are devoted to a reproduction of the Paris park’s Rose Garden, thus recreating the atmosphere of the French capital in the 18th century.

Entrance to the Bagatelle Rose Garden

The garden included some magnificent specimens of roses – let the photos speak for themselves!

Yellow roses

Pink

Yellow with tinges of pink

Light pink

Creamy

Red

We had our fill of oranges and roses and returned to Tokyo tired but happy!

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Local Japanese gardens

This Sunday I visited a local seaside park facing the Tokyo Bay. The local newsletter had featured an announcement that a park called the Sodegaura Kaihin Park would hold a festival with the first 200 entrants to the park presented with plants. I was pretty excited and hoped to find lots of flowering plants, maybe a botanical garden too!

Upon entering the park, two of the officials gave me a map of the park – it seemed to be fairly large by Japanese standards. I saw a high viewing platform and a large windmill within the park, that had large lawns, palm trees lining the paved paths, plenty of space for kids to play, clean toilets and a splendid view of the Tokyo Bay including the Aqualine, an bridge-cum-undersea tunnel linking Kisarazu, (the city where I stay) to Kawasaki, Tokyo and Yokohama. 

  

Platform (left) and panoramic view (bridge-cum-tunnel in the sea can be seen on the right in enlarged view)

I ambled over to a tent-like structure where volunteers presented me with some marigold plants, a packet of Dianthus seeds, calorie mate and some pamphlets.

    Presents to visitors (left) and tent-like structure (right)

 Barring some camelias and a huge wind propeller that generated around 180 MW of power, there wasn’t much to hold my interest, so I decided to visit Sodegaura Koen, a large and popular Japanese garden not far away from this place.

Wind power in park	Camelia

The Sodegaura Park, one of my favorites, was holding a chrysanthemum festival with the best flowers to be awarded prizes. The exhibits were amazing and  I was delighted to see bonsais of chrysanthemum flowers too. The photos here speak for themselves!

Chrysanthemums entered for the contest (click to enlarge)

The bonsai exhibits were the best I have ever seen.

Bonsai – chrysanthemums

 

More Bonsai exhibits – chrysanthemums

I also met an elderly Japanese couple who introduced me to seeds of the Castanopsis cuspidata, lying on the path that ran around a lake within the park. These seeds are edible and taste quite nice. It appears that during their youth, these seeds were sold and were quite popular, but not many people bother to pick these up nowadays.

 Castanopsis cuspidata seeds (left) and a scene from the Sodegaura Park (right)

 

The park is in full of flowers in spring and the beginning of autumn, but with winter soon to come, the flowers in the park in bloom were mainly chrysanthemum, serbia, and a sprinkling of cosmos, and of course, with plenty of ducks, swans and the Japanese carp in the waters.

Flowers in bloom at the Sodegaura Park

Birds in the park 

Have a great day!

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Back to my poor li’l garden

If I could hear my plants speak, they would probably be yelling at me to pull out those weeds that were engulfing them, draining away their nutrition and cutting out sunlight! Yes, I returned to my garden in Japan last week; my flowering plants engulfed by tall grasses, some of my herbs missing and a tomato plant surprisingly peeping out from my hostas!

But amidst the gloom, there’s sunshine. Take a look at my first harvest of peanuts.

Bunch of peanuts

I had put in just four of these plants before I left for India, and was thrilled to see them come up good and healthy.

Peanuts washed and ready for boiling with salt

I wasted no time and had boiled them almost immediately. I never expected to harvest them so easily. This will be a permanent feature every summer.

Another pleasant surprise was sweet potato. The plants had made their way to various parts of the small plot of land and had to be chopped up. A trial dig gave me some healthy looking sweet potatoes.

Just dug-up and washed sweet potato

I am encourage to grow these again next year. The only point you need to consider is the space – these plants creep all over your garden and take up space.

Another delightful surprise was morning glory. A few of them still adorned my fences and made my day!

Morning glory – still going strong!

The photo above shows two of these flowers engulfed by Japanese anemone leaves. Not surprisingly, I could not find any seeds; this plant was a hybrid variety that I had purchased from the local nursery. I was happy however, to find lots of seeds in other MG plants that I had raised from seed.

A long sasanqua plant with a single flower greeted my return to the garden.

 

Sasanqua

The ginger lily plants had also shot up in my absence; the toad lily was in full bloom.

Ginger lily and toad lily on either side of the solar lamp

Larger view of the toad lily

Scented geranium

The cutting of the scented geranium has grown into a healthy plant! My cup runneth over; I am glad to be back to my garden in Japan.

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PS: My camera fell and the date setting became confused in some of the photos.

Visit to Sagar Upavan in Mumbai

On the last day of my two-month stay in Mumbai, I decided to visit a park in Mumbai. Internet searches pointed to the Bombay Port Trust Garden, called Sagar Upavan in Colaba. I hired a taxi and invited my elderly mother and sister for a drive and a stroll among trees to which they promptly agreed.

At the gate, two young boys either busy on the mobile phone or playing game on a PC (I couldn’t judge since they were looking down under the ledge), tersely said “two rupees.”  There’s one thing about the service class in Mumbai – they assume with two words they have communicated all there is to say. I presumed that we had to pay two rupees per head as admission charges, paid for all of us, and he waved us in cursorily.  We had taken no more than ten paces when another person asked me for the admission tickets. I retraced my steps to the two boys still focusing on something under the table, and asked for the tickets. One of them looked up and gave me three tickets wordlessly. Welcome to Mumbai!

The park was full of tall trees that looked down on shady curving paths.

A winding lane in Sagar Upavan

Several elderly ladies energetically doing their rounds – one of them looking irritated when I stepped into her path and stood looking up admiringly at a palm tree. I found a bench overlooking the sea for my mother and sister and took off with my camera.

The Arabian Sea

A glass house in the garden enclosed numerous cactus plants. A pity it was closed and I couldn’t enter it – although I managed to get a shot.

Cacti in a glass house

During my stroll, I came across some furry friends. The mother stayed put as I patted her but the little one made off.

At home in the garden!

The mother stayed put as I patted her but the little one took off looking a little scared. I shuffled off quietly and was happy to see the little one return to his mother.

Although the garden had a wide variety of flowering plants, not too many were in bloom. I was told that most of the plants and trees  in the garden put on flowers just before and during the rainy season (May to July). I managed to shoot some but could only recognize the Gulmohar (local name) that Wikipedia gives as Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant.

Gulmohar

I’m counting on you to come up with the names of the other flowers shown below.

Top row – Flower 1; Bottom row – Flower 2 Guess the flowers, ladies and gentlemen

 

Top row – Turnera Ulmifolia (according to the board in Hindi and English)

Bottom row – Lily (I guess, looking a little tired!) and Lantana (my favorite)

Here are some trees for you tree lovers (I know you are out there).

Banyan Tree

Tree-1                                                                           Tree-2

Tree 1 looks kind of like the “matsubokuri” tree that you see in Japan with hard black seeds (see photo). Tree 2 has a huge hard fruit as shown.

Finally, I give you what looks like an Aster (tell me if I’m wrong).

Aster?

Have a great day!

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