Ever since I first encountered pussy willows as a little girl I've had a soft spot for catkins. This particular (Curiotypical) species appears indecisive until one examines its terminal floret.(Click if you dare.)
Photoshop with text from Gray's Introduction to Structural & Systemic Botany, 1876
Oh, this is too wonderful...love the decisive terminal floret!
ReplyDeleteHey Leah, I love it when you talk like that! A beautifull eerie patinated acrhetypal and medeavil (I just spelt three words wrong but you know what I mean!) work - again. I bet all those monks at the abbey of Kells would be jealous
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