Texas Gardening: The Bittersweet blooms of Fall Part II, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Janet your last picture is a wheat Celosia. Yours is pretty and different from the two I have. I have a pink ~ called pink candles. And I was given seeds for this purple celosia with purple tinted foliage from Corgimom on MSG forum. No idea of an ID. Being a purple fan, it snagged me! The celosia when they age (the lighter part of the bloom) will develop seed. You can hold it over a cookie sheet and shake and tiny round shiny black seeds will rain down.

I am not sure how one would harvest seed from the Amaranthus ~ love lies bleeding ~ perhaps someone else can help us with that. In your photo, does yours have a purple vein on the leaves or was that a nearby plant?