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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: claws on November 18, 2016, 08:33:46 pm

Title: Flower?
Post by: claws on November 18, 2016, 08:33:46 pm

This is a photo of a weird structure I observed on a flowering weed in a field close to my house. Anyone here know what it is?

Kim

Title: Re: Flower?
Post by: sdwilsonsct on November 19, 2016, 08:39:26 am

Looks to me like a deformed flower lacking ray florets ("petals"). Might have resulted from physical damage from a bug, or a fungal or viral infection.

Title: Re: Flower?
Post by: claws on November 19, 2016, 09:24:42 am

Quote from: sdwilsonsct on November 19, 2016, 08:39:26 am

Looks to me like a deformed flower lacking ray florets ("petals"). Might have resulted from physical damage from a bug, or a fungal or viral infection.

Thanks Scott. You're probably right, although this structure is quite a bit larger than any of the other flowers. Maybe it could be a seed dispersal mechanism for the plant. I'll look at it some more over the next few days and see if it morphs into something else.