Hello, everyone, this is my first post! With a bouquet of irises, we got these unrelated leaves of most unusual shape. The stalks and leaves have not wilted, and it has been 2 months already. The stalks have semi-soft, smooth feel, but resistant to slitting. The inner stalk is white and moist when cut at the end. Most interestingly, the leaves have a dry button within the blade, which serves as a start of a curving indentation in larger leaves. See the attached picture. The leaves have no odor, do not wilt, not grow, and have overall feel of a privet bush leaves, for which they were mistaken. Privet bush dries quickly, and has woodsy stalks that dry quickly. I searched online to match leaf image or description, and found nothing.
Ruscus hypophyllum, an interesting plant, because those "green leaf-like somethings" are phylloclads not leaves... ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruscus
thank you, Lila. It is Ruscus, as I see on the wiki page...."Used in the floral trade as foliage." I am definitely interested in growing it since it is the most hardy and non-finicky and exotic flower. When we got the leaves, one of them did have a yellowish clump in the middle of the leaf, the clump fell of and left the dry button.