A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Okay, i give up... what are they?

OKie dokie, i've got two plants that i can't figure out. I have a white plant that looks like a dusty miller, only more tree like, and less full sized leaf like. Could it just be a big dusty miller?
Dusty Something

Annnnnnnnnnnd now, here's a mystery of a plant that my mom calls a "Chinese Prong." But i can't find anything online about them... They love water, and grow very much like a Bird of Paradice. As a new leave grows, the furthest one on the outside of the plant dies and falls off. This creates a diamond pattern as it creates bark. the ones my mother has are MUCH LARGER than this one. The leaves are the size of a baseball hat, and multiple spike leaves come out of one shoot from the middle. It doesn't flower from what i can see, but it might. Annnnnnnnnd, it propegates from roots underground by shooting up a baby leaf spike, and all that.

The roots shoot off of one big main fleshy root which splits off into many. *thinks* i can't really think of anything else to say about it ^.^ I'm sure you're tired of reading by now lol. Anywho, here's a pic:

Chinese Prong

So ya ^.^ anyone know what these are? *hops* thanks a lot!

The first one looks like a Marigold. Second one I cant tell. Maybe someone else here can identify it.

Karen

Well when i first got the first one, it was completely white. It could be some kinda weird demented merigold though lol. But ya, ever since i separated it from the other two, its been turning green, and kinda freaking out with the whole thing. As soon as it gets used to its new pot and being on its own, it'll be fine Thanks though! I'll look for a species of marigold like that when i get some time!

Does anyone know what the other one is?

anyone? >'.'< meow!

The first one looks like a centurea, the one that flowers bright pink. I think the name is Centurea dealbata?

Centurea dealbata

oops sorry that is so big!!

>.o Iiiiiiiiii'm pretty sure its a type of dusty miller. When its healthy, its very very very snow white. Right now its green cuz its not healthy. But when its white, its stems are longer. I think it might just be a different species of dusty miller or something. Thank you though ^.^

Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what is that other plant?

No one knows? >.< now this thing is gonna bug me... I looked at the other one, and its definately a species of dusty miller.

But the Chinese Prong thing... No one knows?...

The firs plant is indeed a relative of dust miller it is also known as wormwood. Don't know about the second one though. sorry about that empty message, I am just trying to learn how to use this message board.

Could the chinese prong plant be an anthurium?
gardencrazy

oh thank you for the wormwood one! *hugz* ^.^ awesome, i know what one of my plants is!

The Prongy thing definately isn't a anthurium. That was a good try though. It looks very similar, but the way it grows is kinda different. Its also green As far as i can tell, it doesn't flower.

One of these days, i'll get my webcam over ot my mom's house and get a picture of the HUGE one that mine came from. I guess they root from a bulb, and a buncha lil ones go all over the place, and shoot up around it.