Howdy all,
I'll get straight in with my first post. Bought a pack of seeds in Madeira marked Protea with a picture of a king Protea on the front.
After nearly 18 months of trying to get anything to grow this has sprung up this year - although the recent bad weather has nearly ruined it again.
Does anyone have an idea of what it is? Does a Protea start out like this? It seems to have millions of small pink buds growing on it - if they're tiny flowers they are indeed miniscule.
Help
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Hi Eric, This was one of the options on a google reverse image search. I'm still holding out for the glimmer of hope that someone didn't sell me a bag of weeds. I'm probably grasping at straws here but the Dock weed leaf shape doesn't really look the same as what's in my garden and it also seems to produce a bigger flower than what I can see.DoubleDogFarm wrote:Look up Dock weed and tell use what you think.
Eric
The Quinoa might be a good call though - the leaves look somewhat similar. At least if I did get sold a pack of duds - I get some health food out of it!
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Sorry !potatoes! no macro on this camera so here's the best I can do. this is about 3cm in length to aid with scale. oh and the stem too.!potatoes! wrote:does look like a chenopodium of some sort. right leaves, right kind of seed cluster. can you break up some of the seed head and get a pic of the seeds? (might need a macro- function on your camera)...
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hope this helps but I think youmight be right with Chenopodium
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