I discovered a new plant?!?!

[Eli]

ok so i took pic. how do i post on here??

do i really need to upload to pic sharing site first or something?

[Vulture]

Try to get a close up of:

1. The fruit
2. The leaves
3. The buds

do i really need to upload to pic sharing site first or something?

Yes.

[Eli]

Hope that works. Thats the top of the plant...dont have the leaves or stem anymore. But the stem connected to it where the bigger part is by the two red "berries" the berries covered the whole thing and connected where each of those little red dots are on the purple thing. IDK wtf it is.

[fanglekai]

omfg you just destroyed a rare plant specimen!!!!!

[millionsofdeadcats]

It is definitely a succulent or cactus, could be a juvenile of some species, but I cannot find exactly what this one is.  I would say it looks like a juvenile 'apple cactus' but it is flat like a prickly pear, not a columnar cactus.  I will look a bit more.

[RisiR]

is definitely a succulent or cactus

Yup.

[Eli]

It is definitely a succulent or cactus, could be a juvenile of some species, but I cannot find exactly what this one is.  I would say it looks like a juvenile 'apple cactus' but it is flat like a prickly pear, not a columnar cactus.  I will look a bit more.

well when it was alive it was completely round and more "puffed out" its gotten really small and flat since i picked it. the fruit was about 4" long and the plant total was like a foot tall. there was only one in the area and like a mile away there was another one. never seen it before in my life. oh and its like all hollow inside.

thanks for the help.

[RisiR]

So you just ripped it out or the ground and killed it? Great.

[Eli]

it was found in the shade of a forest...pretty humid, like qtr mile from a river and qtr mile from a lagoon. kinda right between the two. actually they both were found like that. and it had two stems for leaves that came from the base of the plant like a V but with the plant stem going right in the middle. and the end of the leaf stem it branched into three leaves.

forgot to mention it was found in MN

[millionsofdeadcats]

My money is on some native opuntia variant, but here are some pictures of similar cactus and succulents for comparison sake. 

Apple cactus




Purple prickly pear




Opuntia species

[Eli]

So you just ripped it out or the ground and killed it? Great.

yeah one of them. nobody beilieved they thought i was trippin or some shit so i had to bring it out of the woods. theres another one tho.

[Eli]

it looks nothing like those pics tho. it had leaves like  a plant would and those red things were like little berries...it was covered in them. the first one i found had lost like half of the red berries so i was able to see the deep purple color. the second one had all the berries and it was bright red. i went back like 4 days later and picked it, it had lost all berries except those two.

[RisiR]

So you just ripped it out or the ground and killed it? Great.

yeah one of them. nobody beilieved they thought i was trippin or some shit so i had to bring it out of the woods. theres another one tho.

Check out a botany forum. They'll be of more help.

[millionsofdeadcats]

it looks nothing like those pics tho. it had leaves like  a plant would and those red things were like little berries...it was covered in them. the first one i found had lost like half of the red berries so i was able to see the deep purple color. the second one had all the berries and it was bright red. i went back like 4 days later and picked it, it had lost all berries except those two.

I know it looks nothing like the pics, but species wise it looks very similar to an opuntia.  There are thousands of different variants of opuntia, not to mention hybrids and shit.  Could be just about anything, it is really fucking hard to identify plants even with pictures.  I'd say there is only a fifty percent chance we will ID it without a botanist or a hardcore plant nerd.  Any around?

Oh yeah, those aren't berries, they are 'fruits' or inflorescences.

[Eli]

it was like 2-3x this size...and the stem came out where those two berries are which are like the size of peas. Stem was similar in thickness as a pencil or maybe even a sharpie.