Thank you!!! Re: A thick red stalk and thin, leathery, white-veined leaves?

Hi,
I thank you all for your efforts. I found a picture of some gopher plants
and I am sure that is what it is!!!

This is the picture:
http://plantsdatabase.com/showpicture/16425/

I have potted one of the plants I found and here are some additional
details:

the leaves are stiff, dark green, pointed on the ends and the largest is 3/8
inch wide by 5 inches long;

each leaf has a distinct white vein running down the center from end to tip;

the leaves have no stem - they are a full 3/8 of an inch where they touch
the stalk;

new leaves sprout vertically out of the top and then stick out at a 90
degree angle from the stalk as further new ones develop;

there are exactly 4 rows of leaves (north, south, east, west so to speak)
stacked up evenly along the stalk;

the plant I potted has two branches sprouting out about 3 inches from the
ground;

in the field where I gathered it, there is a whole patch of it growing close
together in one area of waste ground - an overgrown family cemetery to be
exact which led me to think that it was all attached by the roots but when I
pulled one out the roots came with it and it didn't seem like it was
attached.

Sorry my original description was so vague.

Thanks again! You guys are great! -Dan Stanley




"Cereoid-UR12-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Euphorbia lathyris, the so called "Gopher Plant" has paired leaves,
> distinctly 4 ranked, the whole plant is glaucous and looks nothing like
what
> Dan describes.
>
> Even though Euphorbia is a very large genus, none of the native ones or
> introduced weedy ones could even remotely be described as looking like a
> palm tree.
>
>
> JPittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Could be a Euphorbia - like gopher plant.
> >
> > Dan Stanley wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I live in Northern Virginia's Shenandoah Valley (zone six I believe)
and
> I
> > > saw some very attractive plants that looked like they should have been
> in a
> > > pot by the side of the road today.
> > >
> > > They were from one to two feet tall and had thick, soft, red stems.
The
> > > leaves all came out of the single stalk and looked like the top of a
> palm
> > > tree except they continued down the stalk a ways. The leaves were
long -
> > > maybe six inches - and thin - about 3/4 inch - dark, leathery green
with
> > > white veins.
> > >
> > > We have had a couple of good frosts so most plants are down for the
> winter
> > > but these looked very comfortable growing out of the grass. There were
> > > several of them growing side by side.
> > >
> > > I looked around a little for a picture of something similar but didn't
> have
> > > any luck. Any guidance you might give me would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>