jstropic, I learned from ealier posts to force-bloom amaryllis for Xmas, as Jodi said above. To make it easier for you here, I explain what I have done and provide the links for your reference: By end of August-beginning September, I unpotted the plant. Then I cut off all the leaves, washed the soil off the roots but left the roots intact. Next I hung the bulb, now leafless, in the shade for 1 week to dry out a bit before I wrapped it in newspaper and placed it in the vegetable compartment in my fridge for 8 weeks. (I took care not to have apples in the fridge at the same time!) After the 8 weeks in the fridge, I took the bulb out. The roots were mostly dried and brown, especially the smaller roots. I cut off all the dried roots and kept the ones that looked whitish. Then I placed the roots in a glass of water for a day to revitalize them (the Maria soak!), taking care not to let the bulb touch the water. Finally, I planted the bulb in good soil and mist it to keep moisture. After 3 weeks, a scape appeared and then I had flower after week 5 in my humid and hot climate. People said in the US, it should bloom after week 6, which is around Xmas time! See the link below for what I did after the fridge. I'm planning on doing the same thing this year, with more bulbs! Xuan Here is a link that might be useful: Updates of what I did

I want to thank you both for your help. I have a follow up question. I typed that species into Google Image and got a ton labeled as such, but many of them were obviously a different species. Is that typical that so many people put these pictures available on the net and mis-identify them? I mean a few looked like the one I have, but most don't. Thanks again.

It would help if y'all started a new thread for each new query. Include a picture (preferably showing the whole plant, a close up of leaves, and flowers if any), and tell us how big it is and where you found the plant. Knowing whether it's in Florida or Michigan can help ID a plant. Mary, I would say posting your three plants in one thread works, but piggybacking on another thread gets confusing, especially since others have done the same here. Also, there's a Name That Plant forum here; the people who hang out there are friendly and knowledgeable about a wide variety of plants. ----------------------- Now that I got that off my chest, the first one Mary posted looks like a carrot relative--maybe fennel or queen ann's lace. #2 might be a hosta relative. I think #3 will have yellow flowers, but I don't know the name. Maybe an artemissia relative?

Well in any case, it certainly looks edible -- whether you call it mild mustard greens, turnip greens, or immature rapini. That whole family is edible, and when it happens to be mild, it is imminently so. If it's crowding out your broccoli, you could just cut off the big leaves, chop 'em up, saute in some oil and onion or garlic, and it will almost surely be delicious and nutritious. That's what I would do. In fact, I did that, when something grew in my garden mulch several years ago that seemed to be a mustard green. It turned out to be milder than my arugula, so I ate some, let it go to seed, and have been planting it ever since. I think it must have grown when I threw the trimmings from a pickling episode onto the mulch. But I tried planting what I thought were the same mustard seeds the next year, but they were rougher and less tasty than the mystery mustard greens, so I don't know where the first seeds came from, but I keep planting them.