Big sunshine yellow ray florets ring an array of disc florets on day 1.
Disc florets opening from the outside in. Tiny buds, fused sepals with a blue bead necklace.
Buds, pumped from a central reservoir, spiral outwards. Fibonacci coordinates the dance as usual.
Disc floret buds with blue beaded tips.
When the disc buds burst open five fused anthers, shaped like a pencil, slide into view. There is a style with a stigma on top if you look carefully.
By day 8 all is revealed
Like one of those flower cartons you see in supermarkets, a complete disc flower is finally on show. A thick style, with a distinct bilobed stigma. It rose through the fused anthers and is covered in pollen.
A bouquet of flowers wrapped in ray flower petals.