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Fascinated by Fasciation

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,352
    I just saw this blog post and immediately thought it would appeal to readers of this thread! 
    https://www.kew.org/blogs/kew-science/weird-and-wonderful-foxgloves

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,615
    Excellent link LG
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444
    Eryngium ebracteatum


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ZenjeffZenjeff Posts: 652
    Foxgloves all odd this year

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444
    Zenjeff, I've had more odd Foxgloves than anything else over the years. They must be very susceptible 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Sorry, no pic! but my Gertrude Jekyll rose is sprouting a few petals directly from the leaf nodes. Normal buds above. Is that a form of fasciation?
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,615
    Can you show us a picture, Nollie?

     That is a seriously weird eryngium, Nutcutlet.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Sorry fidgetbones, I saw it, thought, that’s really weird, so cut off the affected bits and binned them. If it happens again I will post a pic. It was pretty odd seeing petals growing directly from the canes.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Fidgetbones here are some pics of more petals growing out of the canes of my Gertrude Jekyll rose - sort of half leaf half petal, very odd but don’t know whether this is fasciation or something else.. doesn’t seem to be bothering GJ in the least. @Marlorena have you see this before?


    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,615
    Certainly that is unusual. I don't think it is fasciation. It seems to be a leaf modified to a petal.  Maybe the heat is getting to it.
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