Off Topic What’s this knife/sheath sitting on?

NOPE - leaf - YES, the other part not so yes. ;)

Stepping out for a while. Need to cut some plywood. Later then - PM coffee break time.
 
I wish I had a banana leaves on my Maine walkabouts but that's bananas :D

You cutting plywood too? What ya building'?
 
Good guesses Wild Willie Wild Willie but our one and only Hosta is a tiny thing, not that this knife is a giant, only a 2.5" blade.
I tried landing a small folder on the Hosta and it wouldn't hear of it. :)

Not mayapple or maple either.

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My brother has some hastas that are huge, which was why I went that way, and just to clear up my first one I should have said may-appley. I don't need any rumors going around that Mr. Anthony Willis mistakes something like that for a maple leaf...😛
 
I’m trying not to cheat and send this submission to my wife…she is a plant person and ran a retail greenhouse for a number of years.

Lol. Me…I know almost zero about plants…I hate to admit.
 
Wild Willie said:
My brother has some hastas that are huge, which was why I went that way, and just to clear up my first one I should have said may-appley. I don't need any rumors going around that Mr. Anthony Willis mistakes something like that for a maple leaf...😛
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We do have a MOOSEWOOD in the yard and all around our local woods and they do produce 5" to 6" leaves. These are also known as STRIPED MAPLE or GOOSEFOOT MAPLE. I have also tried to photograph on those to puzzle y'all but even my littlest knives are a bit heavy unless I break the leaves off and set them on the ground. I mentioned MAPLE, Mr. Anthony Willis as a play on words to your "may-appley" but also with the moosewood in mind.

OH yeah - to all the other guesses NOT.

Come on J Just Tom. - jump in - you know this one. :D
 
I got my feet wet photographing this this time of year. Thank you TOM - you are (BUT OF COURSE) right. 🥳

For those of us who likely don't know J Just Tom. and I have had a yearly posting of these in various phases over the past few years on CelloDan CelloDan 's great WALK IN NATURE thread.

Yes, please look it up- though even the Latin has a clue.
 
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Some additional clues:
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RayseM said:
We do have a MOOSEWOOD in the yard and all around our local woods and they do produce 5" to 6" leaves. These are also known as STRIPED MAPLE or GOOSEFOOT MAPLE. I have also tried to photograph on those to puzzle y'all but even my littlest knives are a bit heavy unless I break the leaves off and set them on the ground. I mentioned MAPLE, Mr. Anthony Willis as a play on words to your "may-appley" but also with the moosewood in mind.

OH yeah - to all the other guesses NOT.

Come on J Just Tom. - jump in - you know this one. :D
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I had to make sure, context and regional dialects can make some of these exchanges difficult to discern on occasion... We do have striped maple in the higher regions of New York. The closest to me I've seen it is down near Naples, but there's plenty of it in the 'dacks.
 
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