09-09-2026, 01:06 AM
(08-09-2026, 08:00 PM)Adilah wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could the apparent “flower” in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. actually be a fruit/seed capsule or post-flowering structure?
Well, yes, it could.
In the previous millennium someone proposed that the plant was a sunflower, and that proposal was so popular that it stuck as the nickname of that page. But the "general consensus" for the date of the VMS is half a century before Columbus's voyage, so that claim is no longer considered plausible.
It is still generally assumed to be a plant form the family Asteracea (formerly called Compositae), characterized by composite "flowers" (inflorescences) that have many tiny flowers packed together, surrounded by a shared ring of petals. That pretty much narrows it down to one of 32'000 known species, including the daisy, dahlia, chrysantemum, dandelion, sunflower, chamomle, artichoke, etc.
Anyway, in that interpretation, the "flower" of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. would indeed be more likely be a dry seed cluster (like a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), rather than a blooming inflorescence.
All the best, --stolfi