Make a Wish
by Rosette Doyle
Title
Make a Wish
Artist
Rosette Doyle
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
A close up view of a dandelion ready to grant a wish.
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae and consists of species commonly known as dandelion. They are native to Eurasia and North America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as commonplace wild flowers worldwide. Both species are edible in their entirety.
The common name dandelion is given to members of the genus. Like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant.
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May 15th, 2016
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Terry Davis
Wonderful that you included this in your flower group - some (sadly) think of dandelions as weeds!
Rosette Doyle replied:
Thank you Terry, I think they are quite pretty. Especially when you look closely.
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