Dittrichia viscosa is a plant that appeared in several of my older posts because it is a widespread plant here in my area. However, the Dittrichia viscosa in today's post looks different.
It isn't green anymore.
It's brown, it's dry, and the yellow flowers have turned into a multitude of fluffy, parachute-like seeds.
When the seeds get dispersed by the wind, the remaining flowerheads look a lot like flowers again. Not like the real, fresh flowers, of course, but a new kind of desiccated, mummified ones.
These photographs were taken more than a decade ago. In 2009.
I'm still using my left hand to write the post, so this thing, while being considerably better than what I published yesterday, is still very short. However, at least this time the photographs are my work ... like almost always here on HIVE.