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  1. Ice Swimmer says

    Is it the lack of contrasting colours in the inflorescence that makes it so warm?

    The picture feels like a kiss.

  3. Ice Swimmer says

    That’s what I meant, the center and the “petals” are the same colour for real and that might be part of making it look so warm. I have zero issue with the contrast in the photo.

  4. Kengi says

    It looks so warm because it’s in the sunflower family. Sunflowers absorb bits of the sun and compress them into concentrated sun parts before blasting them back out into your face at nearly the speed of light. Thankfully, in the process, water from the ground cools the sun bits just a little so we don’t get burned when looking at them.

  7. Kengi says

    Just read this description:

    Fertile shoots of this perennial plant are 1½–3′ tall, while infertile shoots consist of tufted basal leaves. The basal leaves are erect, ascending, or widely spreading; they are 3-6″ long, ½–1″ across, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate in shape, and entire (toothless) along their margins. The slender petioles of basal leaves are 1-4″ long. The upper and lower surfaces of basal leaves are light-medium green and either glabrous (var. lanceolata) or irregularly covered with white hairs (var. villosa). Fertile shoots produce one or more stems from the base of each plant; these stems are ascending to erect, although their bases may rest on the ground. The stems are light-medium green, terete, and either glabrous (var. lanceolata) or irregularly covered with white hairs (var. villosa). Pairs of sessile opposite leaves occur primarily along the lower one-half of each plant.

    I need to take a cold shower.

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