Last year I posted snapshots and tried to number them reliably, but I’m rather a disorganized soul, and soon jumbled up the count. I’ve never let disorganization stop me in the past, though, so I’m just going to number these things according to an ever changing set of rules.
I snapped this photo yesterday in the garden area of my dentist’s office in Tallahassee. Then I proceeded to ask everyone what it was. No one in the office had a clue. I guess that’s why they went into dentistry and not botany.
Anyway, perhaps a reader with some gardening knowledge can help me out:
The blossoms aren’t on the plant itself, so kindly ignore them. Do note the purplish serrated looking leaves, and the oddly bare trunk-like stem. The plant is striking in its almost alien demeanor. I imagine if plants grew on Venus, this is what they’d look like.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Peace, people.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
an ornamental kale is my guess….there are other ornamentals in the same family. Pretty purple.
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I wondered about the ornamental kale possibility.
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I agree. It’s “run up” as they say in the south, meaning it started low and bunchy and now it’s leggy and tall.
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I’d never heard that!
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I have no idea but it’s striking (I thought kale was something you eat?)
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Not the ornamental variety.
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Oh dear, I don’t think you should eat that plant….
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No? I’m in need of more leafy greens….
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Michael’s choice would be mine. https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1324&bih=1276&ei=29aXWrnNF4HzUpf4j9gB&q=ornamental+kale&oq=ornamental+&gs_l=img.1.9.0l10.1696.5148.0.9353.12.9.0.3.3.0.100.583.7j1.8.0….0…1ac.1.64.img..1.11.601.0…0.inAEXuc04tE#imgrc=d7JxWOfOC__r2M:
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Yes! Thank you.
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