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Old 02-05-2011, 03:26 PM
lauraliam lauraliam is offline
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Default mystery plant driving me crazy!

hello fellow gardeners,
i am wondering if any one out there will recognise a plant that i have growing, which is driving me crazy. i have spent hours googling, asked all the keen gardeners i know and still i am no closer to finding a name for this plant.
i naively bought it from poundland, it was supposed to be gypsophilla however it must have been packaged wrongly as it is not even close

it is about 60cm tall (was 10cm when i planted from a cutting last august).
the plant remained dormant until this spring when it shot up all of a sudden.
the leaves are crossed parallel to each other and they are long narrow oval shaped. the whole plant is dark green with a red tinge to the stem.

it has recently shot out 5 stems from the top which i expected to have flowers but leaves on more long stems keep multiplying from the centre of the leaves below. there is a yellow piece in the middle of each leaf which looks like it will oneday flower. arrgh sorry it is very hard to describe

i have uploaded a few pics to photobucket if anyone could kindly take a look.
i am beginning to lose sleep over the mystery plant and i am impatient to see if it will ever flower. it is very interesting looking!

Pictures by lauraliam - Photobucket

thanks for reading, hoping someone wiser than myself has the answer