The outstanding fact about magnesium is that it is a constituent of chlorophyll, and is essential to the formation of this pigment. As a result, when magnesium is deficient, one of the symptoms commonly shown by plants is chlorosis. Magnesium is also regarded as a carrier of phosphorus in the plant, particularly in connection with the formation of seeds of high oil content, which contain the compound lecithin. The element seems to be very mobile within the plant, and when deficient is apparently transferred from older to younger tissues where it can be re-utilized in the growth processes. This agrees with the observation that signs of magnesium deficiency invariably make their appearance first on the oldest leaves and progress systematically from them towards the youngest ones. its doesnt look fungal to me.

OK, I admit I got a kick out of their proposed celebration technique: "Celebrants are expected to mark the occasion by cutting root vegetables into squares or preparing other foods in the shape of the square root symbol." ...and then I wondered about the technical appropriateness of it! After all, root veggies are three dimensional things, and people are probably going to be cutting them into cubes rather than squares, and it's not cube root day! Now I'm worried about people celebrating in a mathematically inappropriate manner (no, not really) which would totally, totally ruin the whole thing! Would it not be more appropriate to celebrate by simply eating "three square" meals today? Come to think of it, cube root day isn't for another few years: 3/3/27!

Don you startled me ! Ummmmm . . . honestly I have never ID'd anything before. I have agreed with others suggestions on different posts and even took a blind stab in the dark (I guessed Fire Opal for something that clearly was not Fire Opal). I remember you posting this picture before for an ID. I should go back and look at the post. Is it blue when it comes up in the spring ? Does it have that waxy coating on the top of the leaf ? That is the first thing I would check. If it isn't blue then it isn't Elegans. With three leaves that is a hard one. Not to mention being big and green doesn't narrow it down much either. Flower color and bloom time might be better indicators for something like this. I'd say give it some more time to mature and then it might be a lot easier. I have four in my garden that I have yet to pitch to everyone since I know they are too immature for ID'ing. I did manage to ID a Francis Williams and June last year in a neighborâÂÂs garden, but he already knew what they were so I was basically testing myself. :p Good luck, Ludi

Karen, my neighbor and I trade magazines each month and she brought that one over to me. I have that page turned down so I can save it. What a great way to use curtain rings! Luvs