Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...The flowers grow on a tall "stalk." The Stigma is the top part of the Pistil which is inside each individual flower. The Stigma and Style in the flowers pictured are 1 1/2 inches long. The Ovary part of the Pistil seems to be buried in the bottom of the flower....

So, then, would you consider the entire tall thing in the middle a "Compound Flower"?

[webenda]

...The flowers grow on a tall "stalk." The Stigma is the top part of the Pistil which is inside each individual flower. The Stigma and Style in the flowers pictured are 1 1/2 inches long. The Ovary part of the Pistil seems to be buried in the bottom of the flower....

So, then, would you consider the entire tall thing in the middle a "Compound Flower"?

No, a daisy is an example of a compound flower. This one is a true spike inflorescence.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Good to know. Thanks, Wayne.
Then, what is a Hydrangea, which is what I had pictured in my mind, as a reference, when I mentioned "Compound Flower,'" like a little "community" of little simple flowers acting as one blossom or floral entity?

[webenda]

Good to know. Thanks, Wayne.
Then, what is a Hydrangea, ?

Mopheads are round umbels while the Lacecap is a flat umbel or compound umbel, depending on the type. I suspect the one you pictured is a round umbel but cannot be sure without examining it from underneath.

[robert.]

Flowers have a built in weakness’s. Get fertilized and fall over. This helps plant a new seed. Take a look at flowers near a river bank. They can snap off and float down stream or hill top flowers fall apart and blow away. Over to the next hill top. Only Hallmark holidays call for sturdy flowers.

[webenda]

Built-in ways to propagate, so true Robert. A weakness is a strength in that case. Timber... here comes my seed Earth. Take it and start my next generation please.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And speaking of seeds...
Today is National Beer Day. That should make somebody here happy .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And speaking of seeds...
Today is National Beer Day. That should make somebody here happy .

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Figures.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[healey36]

Hyacinths finally said to hell with it and pushed up out of the ground:



Forty degrees here today at Noon...should be around sixty-four.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hyacinths finally said to hell with it and pushed up out of the ground:

Forty degrees here today at Noon...should be around sixty-four.

Similar here, but supposed to go down to freezing again tonight........on the weather roller coaster.

Fire in the fireplace tonight regardless.

[webenda]

4:35 PM and 94 °F at my house. Up the road
(6.7 miles west) they are reporting 90 °F.

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The average temperature for April 8 is 80 °F.
Global warming came back early this year.

Maybe we wil have another record breaking summer this year (I hope.)

Last year the newspaper repoeted, "Tucson breaks record with 116 degrees, old record was 112 degrees."
--Carmen Duarte Arizona Daily Star Jun 20, 2017

Man! If you can't trust the local newspaper who can your trust? Tucson's record is 117 ±F set on June 26, 1990.
Reference: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/climate/all-time.php

[rogruth]

Wayne,
They probably meant for that particular day.
Our local TV stations report record highs quite often for that date.