fifth leaf

this may be of interest mostly to me but this is my blog so here we go...the wild potato plant ( salanum acule ) in the top three photos is twenty-three days old and the fifth leaf it has developed ( with a nascent sixth one )finally begins to look like like an ancestor of the nordland red plant that is pushing its way out of the bed in the community garden last may...about three weeks after it was planted...certainly the wild potato has a more vine-like appearance but it was grown form seed, not a tuber...if it were just emerging form the soil i wonder what it would look like...perhaps another reason to hope for successful tuber production...if there is a definite zea family resemblance between teosinte and maize ( odd how the annual teosinte produces the ears and the perennial looks so much more like maize in its leaf structure )one can hope for an at least passing resemblance in the solanum family...and i wonder how closely quinoa and lambs quarters will look alike...stay tuned...we may find out