| My mother gave me many packets of seeds to plant. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the empty envelops. I have "something" growing but do not know what it is. Here goes: It is upright- at least 6 foot tall and growing. The leaves are in a similar shape as a cucumber with 7 veins on each leaf- But the leaves are soft and almost a little furry. There are small orange colored flowers and there are more than one one flower on a plant. Do you think it is a sunflower (although the other sunflowers I have seen have very rough leaves)? The stalk itself is firm and sturdy. And in trying to remove a leaf from the stalk, it seemed to peel down- like a really fat string on a celery stalk. |
| I think you may be describing an annual flower called Tithonia rotundifolia, also called Mexican sunflower or golden-flower-of-the-Incas. |
