06-08-2017, 08:51 PM
I have a fairly extensive herbarium and something I have to do occasionally to get the plants to flatten properly so the stems don't break is to pull up the blossoms or leaves (which inverts them if they are asymmetrical) and hold them while folding over the paper that presses them.
I don't know if this is why the VMS violet blossoms are upside-down, there are lots of oddnesses in the VMS—like the legs coming out of the crayfish tails, like the backwards back legs of animals, like the missing back shoulder on many nymphs (many structural anomalies)—but it's one possible reason.
I don't know if this is why the VMS violet blossoms are upside-down, there are lots of oddnesses in the VMS—like the legs coming out of the crayfish tails, like the backwards back legs of animals, like the missing back shoulder on many nymphs (many structural anomalies)—but it's one possible reason.