r/matureplants

Saw this in the Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City. Was 7 feet to the top

I visited Elliott Gardens in Denver, CO again after a year and two months and wow!! The beautiful Euphorbia trigona I'd posted here before has grown about a foot vertically, I would estimate.

Here are photos from March 2025 and just last week. The narrow metal bar near the top of the plant is a good point for comparison. Looks like they're giving it a bit more support, too - it must be soooo heavy.

This huge patch is one HUGE pawpaw in a historical public park. Unfortunately it's a pawpaw which is not self seeding so it needs two different plants to make fruit. This whole patch is one plants and so has literally never fruited in the 5 years I've been here. All connected at the roots. I cannot express in photos how massive and old this tree must be but this patch of land has been untouched for at least 300 years. I'm 6 foot and can't even reach some of the shorter trees flowers, the tallest ones are absurdly high. Almost every single tree in these photos is pawpaw, excluding a few other stragglers. ​These are usually short shrubs, these ones canopies are as tall as the forest around it. Very cool plant I've been visiting for a few years. Wish it fruited though

Saw this on both sides of a suburban street. It looks like the original is in the first photo, and it escaped ("Nature finds a way") to the other side of the street (second, third, and fourth photos) where no maintenance was done. The fence is a casualty of this overgrowth.

I wasn’t able to add to the original post so apologies

hello all! i just received this absolutely stunning (pistachio??) nanouk a few days ago! the wonderful person i received it from kept it in their front yard in a tropical environment and she is flourishing, but she has buds in her vines that are growing in a circle in the pot after i removed her dead leaves. she seems to be in a 20-inch pot. i don't know if getting her a larger pot is necessary or if she'll thrive in these wild conditions, which i absolutely want and would love for her. i'm a novice, though, and she's one of my absolute favorite plants i've ever gotten so far out of the 26 that i have, and i really want her to continue thriving in my care. i could use any advice i could get! also another note, she is moving from an outdoor tropical environment in partial sunlight to my ventilated bedroom by the window, south facing, and in partial sunlight for 8 hrs a day minimum. i will be moving up north into the cold within the month, and i have to know if she will need to be cozied up with my other tropicals in a humidifer case. thank you to anyone who can give advice! this is a photo of her usual lighting conditions in my care now, and i'll post a photo of the top part of her pot in the comments.

This mature — Dracaena, Pandanus, ?? tree must be removed for renovation. Would love to salvage the branch and relocate, if possible? The upper portion of the main trunk is (unfortunately) an eyesore.

What’s the best, aesthetically pleasing option(s)?

Located in South Florida, Zone 11A.