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Other Origanum Questions & Another Mystery Plant

Hi All,

I don't know the answer to that one, Nan, I've always let the
Origanums grow as wild as possible, and haven't had any problems to
speak of.

The expection, my first question, regards the "Kalteri" oregano, or
what is supposed to be, and appears to be from the foilage, having
small sprays of tiny white flowers. I'm quite taken with the plant.
I've considered myself fortunate to have found a local source instead
of paying the inspection on the familiar Canadian source, but I've
gone through two specimens already. Otherwise, I have yet to kill an
oregano off.

Without warning, they will begin wilting suddenly, and within as
little as three days be wasted away to nothing, and nothing returns
from the root. It seems to be independent of watering and other
conditions or variables. I suspect a disease, does anyone know what is
causing this? 

My second question concerns an unnamed plant, that by all appearances,
outside of my botanical and taxonomical ineptitudes, is an oregano,
growing nearly 2 feet tall, forming great clumps within a year, with
oval/pointed leaves and decked with great sprays of medium pink
oregano like flowers from the appropriate tinged bracts. The
difficulty is that the foilage has a citrus aroma and no trace of
oregano, and I have yet to hear of such a thing from any source.

Pardon my being naieve, but is there such a thing as a "lemon
oregano"? I'd pretty much rule out Calamintha or Satureja for what
it's worth.

Lastly, here in southern coastal Oregon, we have a volunteer that
looks almost like a lamb's quarter from ten or twelve feet, dark green
almost undulating leaves lacking texture or veining, and reddish stems.
Lately it has begun to put out buds rather like the first ones on
borage, and breaks into irregular numbered clusers of lowers that
appear first in the lowest joints of the leaves. 

They are a little redder than a salmon pink, faintly tinged with
white, and while I could not get a clear count in the confused and
mangled looking blooms, they appear to have three types of sexual
organs, stigma, darker colored purplish stamens and something else
that I'm sure to elicit much giggling from knowledgable persons by
describing as looking like one half end of an arm or legbone,
including it's stark white color.

As you can see, I am terribly confused, and dying all the more of
curiousity for it. Any ideas on the identity of this?

Great gardening to all,

Robert Carl, Mint Family Collector
chroniapolloni@yahoo.com
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