{"id":25614,"date":"2020-05-28T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25614"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:30:40","slug":"fascinating-fasciated-dandelions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25614","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating fasciated dandelions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was working at V\u00e6res Venner Community Garden yesterday and noticed a deformed (fasciated) dandelion flower. This can be caused by a range of factors including \u00a0random genetic mutation, virus and bacterial infections. Damage to the plant’s growing tip\u00a0and exposure to cold and frost can also cause fasciation and with the very cold weather after a mild start to spring is probably the cause in this case (see https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fasciation).\u00a0
Searching around I discovered two other fasciated dandelions! This phenomenon is rare, but I have seen it before a few times. However, I’ve never seen more than one plant affected within a small area before! I photographed each of the plants below and fantasising about making fascinating fasciated dandinoodles* or rather dandi-lasagne as the flower stems are flattened :)
Unfortunately, this mutation doesn’t seem to return in the following year in dandelions..

*Dandinoodles (l\u00f8venudler) are made from quickly boiling the flower stems perferably before the flowers open and just mixing with butter or olive oil:

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Fasciated Plant #1 had twin or siamese flowers:<\/p>\n