Botany of a Chrysanthemum Revealed 🌺

I will look this up on my computer. Right now I'm on my iPhone. The maroon and gold petals are really ray flowers around the central disk region. They get the attention of pollinating insects. The yellow disk buds and flowers in the central region are tiny florets that produce seeds.

 

The following link is to a very interesting page on the microscopy of a chrysanthemum. It is on a different type, but some of it is relevant.

 

www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.mic...

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