Unknown Plant (again)

 

Can anyone identify this plant? It came up in a germination cell that
should have been onions.

http://tinypic.com/1r509n5u
Unknown Plant folder
First pic upper left.

I'm thinking epazote, but I've never grown it before.
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Looks to me like an Amaranthus (another genus in the same family as
epazote).

    Una

 



Just when I was getting used to Bacteria, Archaea, and Eucaryota,
someone slipped in a new (no I don't want to know how long that it has
been used) phylogenetic tree using clades(!??). When I go to the
Wikipedia site for Clades http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade
I am told that, "This article may be confusing or unclear to readers."
Spiffy, another learning curve! Can't we just go back to Earth, Air,
Fire, and Water?

You're right Una it does look like amaranth. It's about 20 cm tall now.
The next 20 cm should tell the story.

Viele Dank.
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Bill Rose said:

Some type of pigweed (Amaranthus sp.) and a slightly anemic
looking specimen, at that.    Pigwweeds can be hard to ID down to
species without having the mature inflorescence to look at.

http://www.oisat.org/pests/weeds/broad_leaf_weeds/pigweeds.html
http://ipm.illinois.edu/bulletin/pastpest/articles/200122g.html

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Aw, give it a break, it's only 4 weeks old and growing like . . .
a weed.


After reading the 2 above cites, I'm tempted to take a flame thrower to
the little guy.

When I was loading a tray of germination cells, I found this small
(2"X2"), plastic, zip-lock baggie which had no identification. I went
back through my seed packets and couldn't find one without seeds to
connect the baggie to, so I planted a few seeds and marked the cell with
a question mark.

This year, besides gardening, I guess I'll be a plant detective as well.
Did the plant come from an old baggie of seeds, or did the cell become
contaminated somehow, and which member of the Amaranthaceae gang is it?

"Utricle--a membranous bladderlike sac enclosing an ovary or fruit
(seed). The utricle is contained with the tepals, and the seed is
enclosed by the utricle. How the utricle fractures (breaks apart) has
been the basis for differentiating between common and tall waterhemp."
ZZZZZZ

Uh, yeah, sure, right, and I need to keep it away from my beds until I
figure out what the little rascale is.

Thanks for the cites, Pat, very interesting, if laborious, reading that
you and Una have given me.

As they say in France,

St. Cloud, ball de match
(thank you very much)
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merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.


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