So, with all your helps...here is my mystery plant (I hope)

Now see, if this were "24"...your image would have been scanned into the

database, it would have been analyzed down to the molecular level, genetic code of the origin species would have been traced to an obscure village in Lithuania, trace minerals found in the soil would have plutonium ions suspended in the peatmoss and Jack would have been dispatched to dispatch the dispatchees.

All before the first commercial.

Alas, we in the real world, must sit and wait.
Have you tried sending the photo to a Master Gardener site?

 
Alrighty...I asked around and here is what I got.....

it is a Eurochinasion of Japlatifroccan descent that is still quite young as it's umbilical cord is hanging off the side.
It is a very shy plant that often hides it's head in the sand when young. It believes that when it is upside down the skirt-like leaves give it the look of a Fibralian grass skirt with antennae and that these antennae scare off predators but in fact as it grows older the plant likes to stand on it's glistening golden feet in deep, dark soil that has a musky chicken-run odor.
It does not need much fertaliszing as those golden globes produce quite a few zing-boomers which transmit into the earth around bringing all earth-worms close. These earthworms do a good job (as we all know) of eargigrating the dirt which in turn encourages the plant to produce more young.
We don't see many of these plants these days as the pull of the moon and the global warming are managing to have a shrinking effect on them and so they are all dissappearing underground.
If you take care of your cute little plant and keep it in a sunny shaded spot you will have untold joy that may have the plant quivering in delight so much so that it will make music by banging its golden, award-winning, globes together after the witching hour, so listen carefully.

I asked the cubs to play the game of writing a story about this plant, one line at a time, folding the paper over and then making the most sense out of the resulting melee of sentences...
Imagination knows no bounds.....
So there you have it!

 
Yeah, right.....blame it on the cubs!

It was a good dinner with a BIT too much wine????

Nice story, whatever it's origins. smileys/smile.gif

 
Marge, Can you tell me where you got this plant? I think it is fascinating.

I tried to google the info joanietoo sent, but could get nothing.

 
I don't know where you would google to get the info Joanie found. Some scout's tent perhaps. It was

one of 2 at a local Chinese grocer here. REally, I've never seen anything like it. What amazes me is how metallic the little globes are.

I'm looking at it belonging to the allium family so have asked a Dutch friend to think about it.

Who knows.......

 
Gee, do the leaves smell (or stink) of onion or garlic when you rub/disturb/break them?

If they do, then usually for sure the plant is a member of the allium family.

 
Marg, It looks like it could be from the Agapanthus family. You can check them out on google or ask

 
But look on the bright side...

with the advance of technology, in about 2 years you'll probably just be able to paste the picture in a google search field and do an optical scan match of the correct name in .001563 seconds.

 
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