These thistles are keeping me in suspense since I started watching them several days ago. The handsome, silky bracts subtending the inflorescences have unfurled, but the capitate inflorescenses are still curled up inside these swelling buds.
These thistles are keeping me in suspense since I started watching them several days ago. The handsome, silky bracts subtending the inflorescences have unfurled, but the capitate inflorescenses are still curled up inside these swelling buds.
The mechanisms that nature creates as a result of combining reproduction and self-defense is pretty amazing. The whole idea of converging two ideas to make something new has always fascinated me, I guess.
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