What Is This Garden Flower?

tiny dark pink flowers on multiple branchlets from single stem I threw down some seeds and have searched the web and cannot find this? Does anyone know what it could be?

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R Barbara
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August 20, 20150 found this helpful

It looks like a type of chenille flower.

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Babette

August 23, 20150 found this helpful

This is amaranth - love lies bleeding

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Catherine
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August 24, 20150 found this helpful

I agree with Babette, your plant is an Amaranth. You can make the difference between the Love Lies Bleeding plant (Amaranthus) and the Chenille flower also called Red Cattails plant (Acalypha hispida) by the flowers and the leaves. Acalypha hispida flowers are single fluffy "tails" thin and short when the Amaranth flowers are much longer and larger clusters. The leaves of the Chenille flower plant are dark green, large and round shaped when the Amaranth leaves are thin and sharp shaped .

It is important to make the difference between the two plants as Acalypha hispida is toxic when Amaranth leaves and seeds are edible. You can find information about this very useful and interesting plant at www.tropicalpermaculture.com/amaranth-plant.html
Hope this helps !

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Christy w

August 24, 20150 found this helpful

Thank you all so much! I love the flower and looks unusual and wasn't able to figure out what it was. Thanks everyone for your response it really helped

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