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Brakawolf In reply to The-Toy-Chest [2017-04-16 15:54:38 +0000 UTC]

Ok, it's an anemone, sometimes called a windflower. The ball is the center part of the flower, yellow in the one above, after the leaves have dropped off.

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The-Toy-Chest In reply to Brakawolf [2017-04-18 14:51:08 +0000 UTC]

Very cool, I hadn't previously known of any anemones living outside of the ocean. So I suppose the bauble center part is what holds the plant's seeds once the petals have fallen away?

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Brakawolf In reply to The-Toy-Chest [2017-04-18 15:57:51 +0000 UTC]

I would say so, but I'm not a botanist. When I first saw it I thought it may have been a tiny Dyson Sphere. Anemones are apparently very widedspead, and seem to exist pretty much everywhere, though different varieties for different places. I'm just looking this stuff up, you know.

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The-Toy-Chest In reply to Brakawolf [2017-04-18 20:43:57 +0000 UTC]

It does kind of look like a Dyson Sphere.

I found that it is called Japanese Thimbleweed as well, based on the seed bauble thing, I would guess. I also found this picture of the seed thing after it dries out: l7.alamy.com/zooms/4a26287e4a1… It sort of reminds me of cotton. Plants can be such bizarre looking organisms...

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Brakawolf In reply to The-Toy-Chest [2017-04-19 05:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Cool. I might harvest one of the 'seed things' (I don't know what to call it either. This may be the start of a very amateur interest in botany) and eventually take a comparative photo.

I also noticed that the flowers close up toward evening, hence perhaps the association with anemones.

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The-Toy-Chest In reply to Brakawolf [2017-04-20 13:10:39 +0000 UTC]

I'd love to see how they turn out! I'm no botanist either but have had an interest in plants (and just nature in general) for as long as I can remember. If it was the 1800s I would be a naturalist.

Are there morning glories or crocuses in Tasmania? I noticed those plants also have flowers that "sleep" at night.

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Brakawolf In reply to The-Toy-Chest [2017-04-21 16:02:21 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure what a Morning Glory is, other than an Oasis song, but we definitely do have crocuses, or at least something we call crocuses. The only reason I know this is because when I was 21 I drove home from work, and found my girlfriend rolling around in on the ground in the front paddock. She later told me that she had been rolling around in the crocuses. She was a fairly strange person, and I accepted her explanation at the time, which was that she had had a reaction to a migraine medication which contained ergot, which caused her to hallucinate.  This may or may not be true. She may have just had a crocus fetish.

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