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bajajudy
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Please help me name this plant-Finally the correct answer!
We always do what a friend of ours calls gorilla gardening in one of our beds....what is that you ask. All the seeds that wind up in the bottom of
the jar get spread around and we sit back and wait to see what will come up. Well this year we have this very healthy group of plants coming up and
we cannot figure out what it is. We have tasted the leaves and no flowers
have shown up.
Any ideas?
BTW
I still think that U2U should be private
[Edited on 8-1-2007 by bajajudy]
[Edited on 8-12-2007 by bajajudy]
[Edited on 9-16-2007 by bajajudy]
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Gorilla gardening--now that's cool! So did it taste like something you could use in a salad?
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I thought about u2uing the answer to you, Judy, but I was afraid everyone might see it
Actually haven't a clue what it is, but you were brave to taste it!!
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bajajudy
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That "we" was in the royal sense...I let Jaime taste it. He did make a funny face.
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elizabeth
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"Please help me name this plant"
How about Joe? or, wait, it might be a girl...Josephine???
Seriously, what does the stem look like? Is it round or square? And, what seeds were in the jar to start with???? Maybe this is just a volunteer
from a friendly bird, and not from the jar at all!
And a question...gorilla or guerilla?
I'm asking so many questions because I'm supposed to be working on a really tedious project...and a plant mystery seemed like so much more fun!
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bajajudy
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Just to help you out with your time budgeting, Elizabeth
The stem is purple and there are too many of them for them to have come from birds, I think.
I think Joe is a good name!
GOrilla.
Now get back to work!
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Looks kinda like the okra you posted a while back but not quite...was the source of the seed all vegies or flowers too? Any local native seeds?
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bajajudy
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It is in the bed with the okra and there should have only been vegies and flowers in the jar.
I guess that there is a chance that the birds hung out for a long while doing their bodily function thing but it seems unlikely that they would have
all eaten the same seeds and wound up in my yard making doo doo.
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Judy I an offer a copy of the Baja California Plant Field Guide if that will help, just $22.95 USD, same day shipping.
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how large is this plant?
are there any flowers on it or have you seen it bloom?
are the leaves palmately simple as they look or am i missing somehting like they´re compound?
is this an annual or perennial?
it looks like a plant my husband grew from the mainland, i don´t remember what its called but when he gets in a little later on i´ll ask him.
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Looks like a possible Chenopodium . Maybe
Mexican Tea?
Is it pungent?
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bajajudy
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From what I saw of chenopodium googling it. that doesnt look anything like what we have. It has purple stalk and the leaves come from above the
branch. It hasnt bloomed yet and is over 2 feet tall and still growing. The leaves also have this purple tint on the edge. I believe that it might
be some sort of pea but in all honesty, I thought it might be a tea too.
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This is a fun puzzle!
At first I thought it was a variety of chenopodium, too...and especially because there are varieties with purple stems...but looking more closely, it
looks as if the leaves are palmate, and chenopodiums aren't. Are they palmate with three lobes?
You may just have to wait until they bloom unless there is a botanist in the crowd!
O.K. Back to work again!
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I've never seen a pea plant with palmate leaves...they're usually trifoliate...the petiole sheath looks like the Chenopod but not the foliage. The
leaf bases of our own Okra is tinged with the same purple. All of which makes me think its in the Okra/Cotton/Hibiscus tribe.
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Judy dry some and have Jamie smoke it you may be on to something big
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Someone just u2u'd me with the answer, but I can't tell. It has something to do with surfing.
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It looks similar to an obnoxious stinging nettle-type plant that usually grows around old barns.
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Albaca
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Albahaca is lemon or sweet basi.
Different leave pattern and they would be very fragrant.
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Don't think so, Comitan...albaca (albahaca) doesn't have palmate leaves and would be easily recognizable....
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