how beautiful

I love the ending of this one.

Anyone in for a small botany lesson about why this is not a "real" berry? As you probably know, flowers have male organs, the stamen which contain the pollen, and female organs, called pistil, which receive the pollen at the tip and have a roundish base at the bottom - the ovary. The ovules, which develop into seeds upon conception, are inside the ovary. The pollen consists of 3 cells - the job of one is to grow through the entire pistil to the ovary, where the two contained sperm cells are released. Have you ever really noticed how long flower pistils can be?! And the pollen has to stretch all the way to the bottom! I'm in awe whenever I see a female maize flower. The protruding threads, which usually remain on the cob, are the pistils. So VERY long. And the pollen grows all the way, oh my god. (to be continued in an answer to this comment...)

Your dad id awesome.

This is so aesthetically pleasing, so much that its KILLING me

At my house, we have tons of ladybug larvae. It’s fun to see them all hatch.

Now THESE are real berries! Single structure grown from a single pistil, with the seeds all bundled up together inside.

That is so pretty!

Last stage I can observe very often in my kitchen

I was just now enjoying its final stage...a chocolate

love how this one shows so many stages!

We have a tree in my yard and my kids have been stained purple for awhile now.

Wild strawberries are delicious!

All of those are going on in my garden right now. ❤️

Come into my mouf!

Pretty colours

Ooh, dandelions are weird, too! Dandelion flowers (as well as most flowers in their family) are really a COLLECTION of flowers. A single flowers is defined by being its own unit with, from outside to inside, petals, stamens, and pistils. The number of each can vary, and parts can be missing (there can be separate male and female flowers, and sometimes the petals are reduced), but the order cannot vary. Looking closely at a dandelion flower, you'll notice that it consists of individual parts - a leafy decorative structure (the petal(s)), which surrounds some stamen and has a little "thread" in the middle that's split at the tip - the upper part of the pistil. The whole structure sits on top of a green round base, which is the bottom of the pistil, i.e. the ovary. If all pistils shared the same stamens and petals, they'd be considered a single flower, but that's not the case, so each petals/stamens/pistil(s) bundle is counted separately.

Never heard of a salmonberry before.

I love how they arranged it into a pinwheel.

They almost look like grapes.

so shiny

Beautiful colours. I am a Synesthete. I see colours when I hear music and the colours of these flowers are exactly the colours I see when I hear the song "I'll find My Way Home " by Jon and Vangelis.

My mouse would like to meet them all 😋

“Aubergine” just sounds so much classier than “Eggplant.” 🍆