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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in
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"FragileWarrior" wrote in message

I can't get that newsgroup but I wondered if it was one of those
dandelions with multiple heads that I find around here sometimes. No
one ever believes me about them.

There is a plant that many people call a dandelion but it has the
common name of 'flatweed' or 'catsear' - Hypochoeris radicata. It has
dandelion like leaves, dandelion like flowers but multiple stems on
whcih it flowers.
http://web.mit.edu/cfox/www/flowers/...eris-radicata_
Med.jpg.10.html




No, we went through this last time I mentioned them. This is a dandelion
that has mulitple heads like a co-joined human twin does. Not a lot of
heads on different stems but a mishapen mass of heads on one stem. The
stems are wider, too, to match the number of heads. They are Dandelions.

That description matches fasciated dandelions. They're not particularly
rare.

For some reason, in the area where this occured, there sometimes would
pop up other twins -- a Zinnia, for example. And once I found a Black-
eyed Susan with a twin head, too. The Dandelions, however, often had
many, many joined heads. In other flowers, I only ever found twins.
(And this wasn't a nuclear dump site -- it had been a farm as long as
anyone can remember.)

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Stewart Robert Hinsley