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Flowers Within A Flower

Every day I try to learn something new. Today I discovered that the center of a daisy flower is called a Pseudanthium. A Pseudanthium is a special type of plant in which anything from a small cluster to hundreds or sometimes thousands of flowers are grouped together to form a single flower-like structure. That made perfect sense when I noticed that there were very small flowers clustered together in the center. Perhaps we should all keep a magnifying glass in our pockets.

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Uploaded on March 15, 2022
Taken on April 20, 2015