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Oct 25, 2016 8:21 PM CST
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Hi everyone this is my first post so let me know if there's anything I should add! I bought these seeds recently marked Chinese plantains and they're still quite young but I just don't think they look right!
They're about palm of your hand sized with fuzzy leaves.
Thanks Smiling Thank You!
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Oct 26, 2016 9:17 AM CST
Name: Rick R.
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Certainly not a plantain (Plantago sp.). There should never be just one central leaf vein on any plantain, and leaves and leaf stems should only be sparsely hairy. You likely wouldn't even notice any. Kinda look like Chinese Forget-me-not? but there must be a lot of different plants that look like that when they are small.
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Oct 26, 2016 4:17 PM CST
Name: Janine
NE Connecticut (Zone 6b)
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Could be Rudbeckia hirta.
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Oct 26, 2016 5:21 PM CST
Name: greene
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Please, may we know from where the seeds were purchased? Knowing that would help narrow down the possibilities.

In the herbal/accupuncture community something labeled as 'Chinese Plantain Seed' aka Che Qian Zi aka "Semen Plantaginis" can be the mature dried seed of several different types of Plantain:
Plantago afra, P. ovata, P. indica, P. asiatic, P. depressa. (There may be others.)
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Oct 27, 2016 9:10 AM CST
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Leftwood said:Certainly not a plantain (Plantago sp.). There should never be just one central leaf vein on any plantain, and leaves and leaf stems should only be sparsely hairy. You likely wouldn't even notice any. Kinda look like Chinese Forget-me-not? but there must be a lot of different plants that look like that when they are small.


Hmmm you know what it's a bit ironic, but I did purchase forget-me-nots at the same time I think I might have possibly switched the tags during planting. Whoops D'Oh!

Also thank you!
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Oct 27, 2016 4:02 PM CST
Name: Rick R.
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I would call that pleasantly coincidental, rather than ironic.

But I guess time will tell if that's true, too! Thumbs up
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