Hi guys! I've had this little guy growing in my backyard for quite a while now. It started as a little unplanned sprout in an empty barrel planter container that was "between" crops. It was interesting to me (the sprout, not the barrel container), so I let it do its thing, and it's really motoring along now. It's tree-like in appearance (long "trunk" leading to branches"). I live in Southern California. I have 30+ containers/planter beds in my backyard planted with everything from berries (gooseberries, blackberries, blueberries, goji, etc) to fruit trees (loquat, peach, plum, cherry, lemon, orange, etc) but the leaves on this little guy don't really match any of my current plants, so I don't think it's an offspring/seedling from one of my existing plants. (my golden fig is notorious for somehow spreading its babies far and wide in the backyard, but this little guy is definitely not a fig!) Its leaf pattern is opposite, and it's about 2 feet tall at this point. It's too young to have produced buds/flowers. I'm definitely going to leave it be and see what happens, but I'm curious if anyone recognizes it! I can take other photos of the trunk/etc. if anyone needs to see those. Thank you!
Trumpet vine, Campsis radicans? Just a guess... not sure at all. I am certain somebody on this forum will be able to help.
Rather than showing more than one view of individual leaflets a picture of the stem buds would be a good idea. In the meantime so far it looks like an ash tree to me - any of those around nearby? Certain kinds have been planted quite a bit in parts of California.
Good afternoon, I was thinking of the Fraxinus dipetala, California Ash. Just seemed to fit for the location.
