
Spider Lily, Hymenocallis sp. (source)
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Spider Lily, Hymenocallis sp. (source)
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Seedhead of western goat’s-beard, Tragopogon dubius (Scop.)
Albrecht Dürer, Das große Rasenstück / Great Piece of Turf (1503)
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Greater quaking-grass, Briza maxima (Linnaeus 1753)
Russian Bee Stamps 2005
British Bee Stamps 2015
Elsewhere other-accessible
• Royal Mail bee stamps designed to raise awareness of species
Close-up of Romanesco broccoli florets
Pixie-cup lichen, Cladonia pyxidata (possibly)
Photo of unrolling fern frond, frondlets and frontletlets (from Free Photos)
Elsewhere Other-Engageable
• Farnsicht — beautiful black-and-white photograph of ferns by Karl Blossfeldt
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Free-Wheel Ferning” is a pun on the title of core Judas-Priest track “Free-Wheel Burning”, off core Judas-Priest album Defenders of the Faith, issued in core Judas-Priest success-period of 1984.
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” — Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Floras Freude means (I hope) “Flora’s Joy” in German.
Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).