Recently a Sunflower has appeared in our garden with a very strange head flower It seems to have 3 heads fused into one. Is this an unusual occurrence ?
It’s a condition called ‘fasciation’ and occurs when the growing tip of a plant is damaged by temperature/virus/insects or something similar.
if you put ‘fasciation’ into the search facility on here you should find a thread with examples from other members. Not a very common occurrence but not that rare either 🙂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think nobody is 100% sure why fasciation occurs, " damage to the growing tip" is the best guess , but , I THINK , it's never been proven. Mother Nature keeping one step ahead of us. Veronicastrum Fascination is named because so many of its flowers "fasciate"
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if you put ‘fasciation’ into the search facility on here you should find a thread with examples from other members.
Not a very common occurrence but not that rare either
🙂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mother Nature keeping one step ahead of us.
Veronicastrum Fascination is named because so many of its flowers "fasciate"