On 17/01/2015 16:58, Spider wrote:
Something that has always puzzled me is the way the very double-flowered
dandelion attracts bees and seems to be so good for them. With most
other double flowers, bees gain very little because the many tiny
florets which make up the 'cushion' at the centre of the flower have
been turned to petals by (mostly) breeders or freaks of nature.

Does anyone here with a better grasp of botany have an explanation for
this apparent anomoly?


A dandylion flower is in fact a head of flowers, consisting of a large
ni#umber of florets, each of which is in fact a flower.
I like the description of a dandylion flower as the sun when in flower,
the moon when a seed head and the stars when the seeds are blowing around.
David @ a sunny side of Swansea Bay most of the day.