Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Most distinctive leaf?, 3 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Wow, too tough to choose! That's like asking a gardener to choose a favorite flower.

Practically every plant has a different leaf, shape, size, colors from white to black and everything in between, thickness, shiny or dull, spotted, striped, splashed, camo. I'm sitting here looking out my window at my back yard, and I can see a hundred different leaves without even breaking a sweat.

Papaya sure are recognizable, but I wouldn't say distinctive. Around here Castor Bean plants grow in the ditches with leaves very similar in size and shape to papaya.

Take a look at Nymphaea Victoria http://www.flickr.com/photos/bika3000/4094552719/ - leaves can get as big as a pool table and have a raised edge like a tray. Now that might actually be a plant you'd absolutely recognize every time as you speed by at 50mph.