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PrimitiveTim:
We gonna need a picture of the plant.  It does look very paper mulberryish to me.  That would be weird for them to be in Kentucky though...

stickbender:

     Are there any spiny looking green seed pods, with grayish speckled elongated seeds?  It looks like a castor bean plant.  It is highly toxic if it is!  The seeds contain RICIN!!!!!  I don't know what they do to make the castor oil from it, without including the ricin with it.  But if it is a greyish green looking plant, it could be that.  It is an invasive plant.  The seeds, may be brownish, I haven't seen any in a while.  Every now and then I will see some on the side of the road.

                                           Wayne

Eric Krewson:
Caster bean plants have a lot of red in the stems and leaves. Used to see them around old house places a lot. I asked and old guy why they grew them, he said country folk would eat a bean for the laxative effect when they needed it.

Pat B:
...and also to keep moles and voles out of the garden. I don't think it is Caster bean though.

Jim Davis:
Here are some photos of the tree--I'm saying tree now because a closer look at the ground revealed  that these are stump sprouts.  I cut the original tree 2 or 3 years ago in the winter when there were no leaves to make me notice them.

There is  a caterpillar tent in the photo to, unless those are silk worms :-)

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