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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Danggit...
The more I look at it now, the more I think it looks like mullein.
Jeez, mullein, borage, borage, mullein, borage, mullein..
The thing is, I don't remember being able to see that many veins on
mullein from the topside...With mullein, which does grow in a rosette
kind of like your picture my first impression is not the venous
structure, it is the fuzz..
Nope, I'm back to borage. :)


EarthNSky wrote:
> I grow borage as a companion for tomatoes. It's about 3-5 ft tall,
> purple flowers, fuzzy,you can candy the flowers-very good, pretty
> little things. Ah, the page finally loaded. Keith, borage usually
> grows in the summer with tomatoes and peppers.  It could be borage,
> but why would it still be so small this late in the year?  It is not
> lambs ears, so my other fuzzy leaved ideas are mullein and borage..
> Mullein leaves are usually whiter-more gray-green than that, but on
> the other hand, I don't recall a small borage plant having leaves
> that large, nevertheless, I'm going with borage.
>
> Bev
>
> keith bellinger wrote:
> > I just brought in a plant from the garden that I thought was
> > mullein (doesn't look like the one in Bev's (?) post but might be
> > borage or even some weed that found its way into the herb bed.
> > Anybody care to take a peak and give a guess?
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/25847493@N06/3020152386/
> >
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