The Hopi Red Amaranthus definitely looks like it. Thank you so much. No, the plant is not mine. There's a whole patch of them growing in a yard a few blocks down where I walk my dogs every morning and they're very impressive. I want to try to get a plant or two for my yard. Thanks again.

It looks to me like a curry leaf. Scientific name Murraya koenigii. It's native to India and Sri Lanka...

It would be easier with the branch in my hands (as you have it), but even from the pictures, it took me about 15 minutes online to google the search terms you were *handed* about this plant, and narrow it down to a few possibles. It took another 10 to go through pictures for the possibles, and get it to one. (((Are weeping cherry or black tupelo (of all things...) used in South Asian cooking???))) Now, do your own homework!! Follow the trail of breadcrumbs you were given! Use your brain, and track it down. Then, if you need to be sure, use your nose. Crush a leaf and smell it. And talk to someone who cooks. Again..... Do your own homework!

Not any of the above, but it is a weed. It grows here too. Not even sure that it is a member of the Apiaceae family, but the leaves sure indicate that it might be. I would dig it out. I have Queen Anne's lace. The white umbels are 4 inches across and have the tell-tale small dark red-violet flower in the center. It was long ago said to be a drop of blood from poor Queen Anne. that is not Queen Anne's Lace. It's not Sweet Cicely, Poisonous Hemlock, Wild carrot, Wild Parsley, Wild Celery or any others in that family, but it grows all through the woods and in abandoned fields and roadsides and in many gardens (wink). I know what it isn't, but not what it is! (he he he) ~Annie