Florida Gardening: Florida Chit-Chat #9 March is going out like a Lion!, 1 by sunkissed

sunkissed wrote:
Hey all I posted this in the plant ID forum but thought I'd post here also since if it a Florida plant. A few years ago this started coming up in my Plumbago in the back garden. Thinking it was a sucker I kept lopping it down. Took me a couple years to realize is is some kind of tree and too big now to just pull out.

Now this is the weird part. These pictures are another one just like it that started growing in my front garden, and right in the middle of a dying Plumbago bush. Grew to this height in about two months. I pulled this one out very easy but took some pics of it to try and find out what it is. I look on my walks in the woods and see nothing with these leaves. They are thick and tough, stays evergreen and hasn't ever flowered.

Hope you all can help me. Thanks
-Sherri