At 02:25 PM 10/10/2006 -0500, Adam wrote: >OK-- another question for this illustrious group. Can anyone tell me if A. >umbellata has slightly fuzzy lanate gray-green leaves. I have a seedling >up under this label and would like to know if that's what has germinated. I just went out and picked a leaf from a mature plant and looked at it under a hand lens. It has no hairs of any kind, certainly not lanate. It is quite glaucous, with a "bloom" that rubs off. However, a seedling leaf might have some different characteristics. Jane McGary