From: Joe
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2003 6:37 PM
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I just want to share this, in case anyone is as fascinated by this as I
am:
I find that I notice a lot more since I've started photograhing flowers
- I
never noticed before but there is a tiny purple-black flower right in the

center of all those other white flowers that make up a Queen Anne's Lace

flower. From what I've now read, this central flower is sterile and will
not
produce seed - it might be there to attract pollinators. My pictures:

http://www.joekaz.net/photos/arboret...en_anne_1.html
http://www.joekaz.net/photos/arboret...en_anne_2.html

(Maybe that was obvious to everyone else, but I find it pretty interesting).

--
Joe



Joe, thanks!!! I'd never grown Queen Anne's Lace before and I was wondering
when I saw that the other week when my QAL had begun to open.....but promptly
forgot to look it up. I don't believe that all the flower umbels have this
flower (at least I can't see it) so once pollinators are attracted to the
plants, it must be all they need.

I was also getting kinda thrilled to notice that some of my QAL looked as if it
was going to be the pink sort.....but it opened as white as the rest of the
plants.

Thanks again....I was poking at that deep red flower, thinking that perhaps it
was a speck of petal from another plant.

Best,
Tyra
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