Granny Nanny's mystery plant -- new pics
Moderator: Chris_W
- GrannyNanny
- Posts: 3243
- Joined: Oct 15, 2001 8:00 pm
- Location: Roseville MN (Zone 4a)
Granny Nanny's mystery plant -- new pics
Well, here's the mystery plant, as of today. It is now about 8-10 inches tall, with many stems branching off the main one, Its vertical growth habit is like a pyramid, and the leaves come off the main stem in threes, with the next set offset from the previous one, so that the leaves are always halfway between the previous set. Leaves are shiny when they first emerge, but soon develop a suede-like finish. It is not a woody plant -- the stems are soft, and they are green, not brown, as a tree seedling's would be. Any other guesses would be appreciated. Phyllis
- Old earth dog
- Posts: 7003
- Joined: Aug 31, 2002 8:00 pm
- Location: St. Louis Mo zone 6 bordered on 5
Not a birch or a tree
I have grown a couple different birch from seed and it is not a birch or a tree for that...it almost looks like it is related to the velvet leaf or chinese lanterns something like that...both sort of weedy...
- Squash Blossom
- Posts: 323
- Joined: May 23, 2004 7:06 pm
- Location: Louisiana
- Contact:
My first thought was Turk's Cap but I went outside and looked and I think the leaves are a little bit wider.
How did this mystery plant come into your possession?
Sometimes I find birds bring me some really neat stuff!! One year it was a tomato plant that grew and produced.
Ann
How did this mystery plant come into your possession?
Sometimes I find birds bring me some really neat stuff!! One year it was a tomato plant that grew and produced.
Ann
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
- GrannyNanny
- Posts: 3243
- Joined: Oct 15, 2001 8:00 pm
- Location: Roseville MN (Zone 4a)
Squash Blossom -- it grew in a seed flat of heucheras, from seeds I'd collected from my own heuchera plants. So, the only way it would have gotten in there would have been if it had blown onto the heuchera stalk, and then just got collected with the rest of that stalk. It had to be a tiny seed, however, because a big one would have shown up immediately among the "fairy dust" that is heuchera seeds. I don't think it's a tree, either -- all those little stalks coming off the main stalk don't look like a tree seedling at all. I'll keep posting pics, and eventually I'll plant it out, and see what it does. Thanks for all your guesses! Phyllis
- petal*pusher
- Posts: 715
- Joined: Aug 07, 2003 9:37 pm
- Location: Adrian, Mi.
- Contact:
Hmmm.....I've looked at these pics every time I've visited! They sure look familiar to me!
Are the stems covered with little hair follicles? Any chance the bottom of the leaves are whitish in color? The growth pattern and deeply veined leaves almost look like some kind of a wild berry like raspberry. Anxious to see new pics!.....p
Are the stems covered with little hair follicles? Any chance the bottom of the leaves are whitish in color? The growth pattern and deeply veined leaves almost look like some kind of a wild berry like raspberry. Anxious to see new pics!.....p
- GrannyNanny
- Posts: 3243
- Joined: Oct 15, 2001 8:00 pm
- Location: Roseville MN (Zone 4a)
- Squash Blossom
- Posts: 323
- Joined: May 23, 2004 7:06 pm
- Location: Louisiana
- Contact:
- GrannyNanny
- Posts: 3243
- Joined: Oct 15, 2001 8:00 pm
- Location: Roseville MN (Zone 4a)
No, it's not an agastache, either -- I have some of those, but they look completely different. I'm leaning more and more toward its being some kind of tree or shrub, since it is lengthening out, with more spaces between the nodes where the offshoots and other leaves are. It still eludes me -- keep guessing! Phyllis