Yesterday when I walked down to the university library, I made this picture in front of the paleontology department. It's best to get out of the house as much as possible, as long as it's still allowed.
Already for a few years, the dandelions here in Tübingen tend to form a double or even triple blossom, with a correspondingly thick stem. Has anyone else seen this mutation elsewhere?
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that’s not something I’ve seen in dandelions yet but I often get doubles in one plant or another, it seems. Very often in some spicatas or veronicas (purple stalked flowersj, or the gerbers, or occassionally a mullein will split into two flower heads. I’ll see if I have the image of a sunflower that did it.
I've kept a keen eye out for doubles or other mutations, due to the frequency I would see them at. Another oddity or rarity for me, was a flatworm (fluke) found when I was double digging some rows deep for root crops.
I couldn’t locate the sunflower, but here is a calendula (pot marigold). It grew a flower out the middle of a flower.
It has rained most days since the stay at home order here. Bored, I post some possible replays. I look forward to sunflowers this year. Hoping to line a fence the neighbors installed with some mammoths. Teddy Bears, Baby Bears, nearer to the house.
Don't mind me-I like fractals and sacred geometry.