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A snowflake I found in Summer to wish you all the best for the holidays :)
The wild carrot is one of the plants known as Queen Anne's lace, the other two being Ammi majus and Anthriscus sylvestris. Just a few days before taking this picture, I came across a, somewhat crude, description of Queen Anne's lace that only fits the wild carrot:
Her lace above,
unshaved legs below,
and a drop of her blood in the middle.
The unshaved legs (I'm sorry!) refer to small, white, stiff hairs that grow all along the stem. The drop of blood isn't really visible in this picture as the flowers had just started to open and the picture was taken in very low light. However, in the middle of this umbrella-shaped inflorescence is a small dot. At first is a sort of dusky pink then grows darker until it is black (I've also seen it described as red or purple). As far as I'm aware, only the wild carrot has this dot, the other Queen Anne's laces do not. So far, the function of this dot, which is an underdeveloped flower, is unclear. Inflorescences (i.e. multiple small flowers) that consists of a number of short flower stalks spreading out from a common point, like this one, are referred to as an umbel. The word is taken from the Latin umbella "parasol, sunshade", which in turn gives us the word umbrella.
Foto: Doldenblüte auf weißem Hintergrund
Bildgröße: 8024 x 8024
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Emmanuel Kant
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La carottes des champs
avec les deux petits fleurs noirs au bout.
Daucus carota
Potvin Pond / Étang Potvin, Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, Canada
