strange looking blanket flower

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  1. bepplen

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    Has anyone ever seen a gaillardia look like this??? It is just one branch off of a normal plant that has this feature. Check out the flat stem!!!
     

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    Beppelen that is a very cool/bizzare looking flower! like it's got a mohawk!
     
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    That is just so cool!
     
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    togata57 Generous Contributor 10 Years

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    Kinda scary...like twins that have not fully separated. Different, for sure!
     
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    That's it! Conjoined twins. Flowers do that some times, just as with humans. It can produce some really neat effects. ;-o Barb
     
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    Maby you could save the seeds off of that flower and they MIGHT stay mutated, and than you can have your new species of blanket flower

    :)
     
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    as cool as it is, it could be due to some kind of infection rather than a random mutation.

    aster yellows is spread by leaf jumpers and, if they're infected with the bacteria (name i can't remember atm), they spread it by chewing the plants. affects asters and coneflowers and some others. i have a listing at home of all the plants that can be affected. not sure if gaillardia is on the list.
     
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    Marn Active Member 10 Years

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    Wow that looks like some weird looking chicken .. lol.. but neat looking .. would be cool if it happend again ..

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    Kind of a mohawk-haircut effect.
     
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    Marn Active Member 10 Years

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    Wow ..looking at the link provided the flowers remind me of something out of The Lil Shop of Horrors .. ..lol :)

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    I have also seen this type of growth on plants. Someone had called it 'staghorn'
    virus, but I cannot remember the scientific term that they used?
    My next door neighbour had a similar thing with her 'lemon cucumber plant.
     

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