1/27/2011

Distorted Tulips

The tulips shown in my latest post have opened, but they all have distorted flowers.



As I know, also virus infection can cause flower distortion, but it can be that it simply went something wrong with the forcing.

On a closer picture you can see that there are too many stamens. Even more, some of them can not decide whether to be stamen or tepal...


And also the style is transforming into tepal:



There is no problem with the Narcissi, the flowers are opening one after the other. The first ones are already fading, here is too hot (20°C) for flower longevity. I like Narcissi flowers because they are just drying instead of wilting like other plants' flowers.


Winter is back again, on the left side of the above picture there is a ribbon of the snowy garden.


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