Dittrichia viscosa is a plant that appeared in several of my older posts because it is a widespread plant here in my area. However, the Dittrichia viscosa in today's post looks different.
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It isn't green anymore.
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It's brown, it's dry, and the yellow flowers have turned into a multitude of fluffy, parachute-like seeds.
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When the seeds get dispersed by the wind, the remaining flowerheads look a lot like flowers again. Not like the real, fresh flowers, of course, but a new kind of desiccated, mummified ones.
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These photographs were taken more than a decade ago. In 2009.
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I'm still using my left hand to write the post, so this thing, while being considerably better than what I published yesterday, is still very short. However, at least this time the photographs are my work ... like almost always here on HIVE.