17-08-2019, 06:45 PM
JKP wrote:
These flowers were always a problem here, they really look extraneous. I like David's thought about flowers of thistle and wheat growing around the stem as an additional hint to the particular story. Although the color of flowers must be blue or, at least, red, I think, anomal coloring is possible in the VMs.
I also had an idea what the flowers are, but I couldn't explain why they are appeared exactly here and in combination with quite another plant.
The crazy eureka visited me today, perhaps, inspired by you. Of course, it is not an absolute solution, but, at least, one of possible explanations.
The buds of flowers always reminded me the flowers of Helichrysum (Immortelle). As I'm not an expert in botanic, I won't put my hands to identify which specie exactly.
Lunaria with its different names always was associated with Silver and Moon, meantime, the name Helichrysum means the "golden Sun" or "sunny-gold". So, it turns out to be a union of the two herbs: solar (gold) and lunar (silver).
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Helichrysum massanellanum (Photograph: L. Sáez)
Quote:Nope, the flowers don't look like Lunaria, I agree. The roots don't either.
They look like aster flowers (especially thistles, centauria, etc.).
These flowers were always a problem here, they really look extraneous. I like David's thought about flowers of thistle and wheat growing around the stem as an additional hint to the particular story. Although the color of flowers must be blue or, at least, red, I think, anomal coloring is possible in the VMs.
I also had an idea what the flowers are, but I couldn't explain why they are appeared exactly here and in combination with quite another plant.
The crazy eureka visited me today, perhaps, inspired by you. Of course, it is not an absolute solution, but, at least, one of possible explanations.
The buds of flowers always reminded me the flowers of Helichrysum (Immortelle). As I'm not an expert in botanic, I won't put my hands to identify which specie exactly.
Lunaria with its different names always was associated with Silver and Moon, meantime, the name Helichrysum means the "golden Sun" or "sunny-gold". So, it turns out to be a union of the two herbs: solar (gold) and lunar (silver).
Helichrysum massanellanum (Photograph: L. Sáez)