Monster!

While in Transylvania earlier this month I saw this wonderful / freakish dandelion with 10 flower heads on one stalk. In the past I have noticed dandelions with two or three heads, but never this many - amazing abnormal thing.

Papadie

I have just returned from 3 weeks working in Romania on a residency for another project, but as always, I still managed to collect specimens of the dandelions there. I collected leaf specimens for the Dandelion Diaries from every location on each day - so I have quite a few to sort through.

The Romanian for dandelion is papadie and they were fully in flower while i was there - bright and beautiful.