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!!!
That's it! Conjoined twins. Flowers do that some times, just as with humans. It can produce some really neat effects. ;-o Barb
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 :)
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.
Wow that looks like some weird looking chicken .. lol.. but neat looking .. would be cool if it happend again .. Marion
Several plants can do this. Where 2 flowers are like conjoined twins. They often have flattened stems. It is called fasciated . http://images.google.com/images?hl=...ants&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
Wow ..looking at the link provided the flowers remind me of something out of The Lil Shop of Horrors .. ..lol :) Marion
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.