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Fascinated by Fasciation

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,241
    @micearguers An excellent example of fasciation. What plant is it?
    You are invited to a virtual visit of my garden (in English or in French).
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,129
    Hope @micearguers doesn't mind me popping in here ...
    It's Dipsacus fullonum ... aka Teasel

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    @Papi Jo it's the common teasel, Dipsacus fullonum. @B3 I quite like teasels with their somewhat prehistoric look. They're not a great fit for my garden, not sure how long I will let them have their way. If a  seedling comes up in the right spot it can stay ...
    I'm very curious whether it will flower and what it will look like. Normally teasel flowers open in a band in the middle and travel in two directions. That could become quite a funky look with this one .. well, fasciation is always funky, really.
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    The more the merrier @Dovefromabove, crossing posts!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,458
    I find most of them pop up in the path or the edge of the border. They have to go but there's always a few that pop up in a more convenient spot.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Might have miss labeled this common daisy video I posted. No sign of any more weird flowers on it since I moved it to another part of the garden so probably not a mutant of some sort as I had thought, but just fasciation.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainableveg/videos
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,241
    micearguers said:
    @Papi Jo it's the common teasel, Dipsacus fullonum. @B3 I quite like teasels with their somewhat prehistoric look.
    I do know that plant and rather like it... in the wild, not in my garden. But I hadn't immediately recognized it because of that interesting fasciation. Keep up posted how the flower(s) develop, please.
    You are invited to a virtual visit of my garden (in English or in French).
  • JoolzJoolz Posts: 24
    edited July 2020
    I have a couple of fascinating Dahlias!  Both, grown from seed last year, the Yankee Doodle variety. 
    One plant has a double-headed dahlia and the other is now throwing up 2 colours! Once the seedlings had grown into a tuber of decent size only one plant was put in each planter. How fab that the one is now throwing out 2 different colours.




    The above pic is of the double-headed Dahlia. The stem looks like the two buds fused together with early growing.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    A fairly common kind of fasciation on courgettes, I think; The 3 first male flowers are all 'twin-headed' like this, but females normal so far:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Found on the internet:


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