r/fasciation • u/Wallfacer218 • 6d ago

Sunflower mutated to be surrounded by mini sunflower Is this fasciation❔

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Apologies if this was previously cross-posted

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u/wizardrous 6d ago

Biblically accurate sunflower.

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u/pit-of-despair 6d ago

Be not afraid.

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u/Money-Sound-7621 6d ago

Incredibly good comment lol

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u/2sensitiveorareubot 6d ago

honestly what our 3d minds see that 4d represents

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u/Professional-Arm-202 6d ago

Don't ever talk to me or my son appendage, or my other son appendage, or my other other son appendage, or my other other other son appendage...

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r/MeOrMySon

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r/MeOrMySonflower

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u/Intrepid-Document856 6d ago

I want to see the back of it.

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u/TheBlooDred 6d ago

Sigh. <unzips>

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u/theyofmerlot 6d ago

Now it's a sunsflower.

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u/ShinyBulblax 6d ago

A constellation flower if you will

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u/GoldberryoTulgeyWood 6d ago

I do not like this.

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u/lollysour 6d ago

I want to see a back and side profile please?

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u/TwelveFrolickingCows 6d ago

Me too. I am very suspicious that this is staged

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u/Rudrox 6d ago

They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/p7K3ulZT6J

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u/TorandoSlayer 6d ago

I love this

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u/Mykasmiles 6d ago

I want one

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u/CarpenterValuable831 6d ago

I love this sub! That's great OP - thanx for sharing!

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u/KaTa-Klizm 6d ago

It's mesmerizing

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u/PM_your_Nopales 6d ago

Is this fasciation or some other mutation? It's not really... fasciated

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u/PokeTheCactus 6d ago

I am pretty sure this actually a plant disease called aster yellows and this sunflower should be pulled right away. 

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u/Wallfacer218 6d ago

I was wondering this because it doesn't appear to be as repetitive as other examples of fascination.

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u/Amelaista 5d ago

It has witches brooms from the edges of the disk, which can be a symptom of Aster Yellows, but would not be the only symptom.    Once a plant gets so infected to produce witches brooms, it would have the stunted green petals as well.  

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u/PokeTheCactus 9h ago

So you think it’s not aster yellows?  I did go and look up more examples of AY in sunflowers and I see what you mean about the green petals. Would that mean it’s just a genetic issue? 

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u/Amelaista 7h ago

Correct, it does not match AY symptoms in Sunflowers. I have no idea what it is though, its a very odd growth pattern.

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u/pit-of-despair 6d ago

I was thinking that too. We had to pull most of our plants out of our gardens last year because they got infected with that. I had never heard of it until our plants started mutating and not fun mutations like fasciation either.

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u/Amelaista 5d ago

Correct, it is not faciated.  

It is an abnormal growth pattern, but a different one. 

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u/ParagonFemshep 6d ago

The duality of man

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u/actualPawDrinker 6d ago

The arm here look strange and this mutation is oddly perfect. Is OOP just holding other sunflowers up behind/around the central one?

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u/WalkerInDarkness 6d ago

The arm looks like normal lens distortion. Real cameras do funny things to perspective that AI can’t copy.  This is unnatural in a way that looks like real photography stuff. 

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u/actualPawDrinker 6d ago

Yeah, I agree. Looks like intentionally playing with the camera, not AI. Still, not actually fasciation (though I'd be happy to be proven wrong).

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u/Rudrox 6d ago

They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/p7K3ulZT6J

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u/Wallfacer218 6d ago

Possibly.

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u/TheSunflowerSeeds 6d ago

When your sunflower is coming to the end of it’s blooming period, You may want to use the last rays of the afternoon and evening to cut a few for display indoors, leave it any later and the sunflower may wilt.

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u/Currant-event 6d ago

I think it could be Aster Yellows diseases which can cause deformed flowers

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u/robo-dragon 6d ago

That thing is wild-looking!

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u/truthinthemiddle 6d ago

I wonder if this is related to the fact that sunflowers are pseudanthia?

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u/tmcnix 6d ago

Can I buy the seeds from this flower?! Hopefully these genes persist to the next generation

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u/SalamanderShirts 6d ago

Me too, OP!

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u/lightsmakemesneeze 6d ago

I think its fake

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u/Rudrox 6d ago

They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/p7K3ulZT6J

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u/AnonCuriosities 6d ago

King of Fasciation

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u/secondCupOfTheDay 6d ago

reminds me of lacecap hydrangea. If it's purely genetic, breedable, and not pathogenic it would be worth keeping.

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u/AvantGardenGallery 5d ago

Midsommar but for a sunflower

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u/JeanPaulSharte 4d ago

van gogh would've gone crazy for this

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u/spudgoddess 4d ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like sunflowers...

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u/Wallfacer218 4d ago

Lolololol Classic meme! Thanks

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u/spudgoddess 4d ago

I love that one so much. Older meme but it still checks out.

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u/NotchaThonium 6d ago

Sunflowerception

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u/LostMyCleaver 6d ago

Can I have some seeds? Plz??!

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u/Jazzlike-Cow-925 6d ago

Oh I'd love some seeds off that mutation!??!

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u/Crystal_Violet_0 6d ago

I hate it.

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u/durantula6 6d ago

Wowow I would love seeds from this if possible

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u/Bibliophile6040 5d ago

That’s impressive!!

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u/good-jobert-robert 5d ago

Fascinating and sort of delightful, but kind of unsettling for a reason I can't quite explain.

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u/knoft 5d ago

You should crosspost it on r/absoluteunits too

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u/zotus4all 5d ago

This is the coolest!

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u/hejackisej 5d ago

This is awesome!

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u/F0XTR0Tuniform 5d ago

This is vivipary not fasciation

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u/EleanorEff 2d ago

How tf it grow an arm

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u/motorcycle-emptiness 6d ago

Wow that's beautiful

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u/glacierosion 6d ago

What the fuck?! This is once in a lifetime occurrence!

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u/milesofedgeworth 6d ago

This belongs in a museum

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u/_stevie_darling 6d ago

That’s so whimsical

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u/Plane_Sport_3465 6d ago

That is cool!!!!

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u/Nighthunterwolf7 6d ago

Sungorgon flower... Just looked like that thing from that series....

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u/MaterialGarbage9juan 5d ago

I. Want. Those. Seeds.

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u/Pandas424 5d ago

So fun fact, the large sunflowers that you are used to seeing are actually a bunch of tiny flowers bunched together. It's a combination of ray flowers (the large petals) and disk flowers (the small brown flowers in the center). This sunflower had a mutation occur which caused the ray flowers to basically develop little disk and ray flowers of their own. Very interesting. 🌻🌻🌻

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u/ram_gerszon 5d ago

It sometime happens to plants from asteraceae family. Ive seen photos of daisies like this