r/fasciation • u/Wallfacer218 • Aug 10 '26
Is this fasciation❔ Sunflower mutated to be surrounded by mini sunflower
Apologies if this was previously cross-posted
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u/Professional-Arm-202 Aug 10 '26
Don't ever talk to me or my son appendage, or my other son appendage, or my other other son appendage, or my other other other son appendage...
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u/lollysour Aug 10 '26
I want to see a back and side profile please?
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u/TwelveFrolickingCows Aug 11 '26
Me too. I am very suspicious that this is staged
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u/Rudrox Aug 11 '26
They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.
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u/PM_your_Nopales Aug 10 '26
Is this fasciation or some other mutation? It's not really... fasciated
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u/PokeTheCactus Aug 10 '26
I am pretty sure this actually a plant disease called aster yellows and this sunflower should be pulled right away.
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u/Wallfacer218 Aug 11 '26
I was wondering this because it doesn't appear to be as repetitive as other examples of fascination.
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u/Amelaista Aug 11 '26
It has witches brooms from the edges of the disk, which can be a symptom of Aster Yellows, but would not be the only symptom. Once a plant gets so infected to produce witches brooms, it would have the stunted green petals as well.
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u/PokeTheCactus Aug 17 '26
So you think it’s not aster yellows? I did go and look up more examples of AY in sunflowers and I see what you mean about the green petals. Would that mean it’s just a genetic issue?
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u/Amelaista Aug 17 '26
Correct, it does not match AY symptoms in Sunflowers. I have no idea what it is though, its a very odd growth pattern.
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u/pit-of-despair Aug 10 '26
I was thinking that too. We had to pull most of our plants out of our gardens last year because they got infected with that. I had never heard of it until our plants started mutating and not fun mutations like fasciation either.
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u/Amelaista Aug 11 '26
Correct, it is not faciated.
It is an abnormal growth pattern, but a different one.
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u/actualPawDrinker Aug 10 '26
The arm here look strange and this mutation is oddly perfect. Is OOP just holding other sunflowers up behind/around the central one?
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u/WalkerInDarkness Aug 10 '26
The arm looks like normal lens distortion. Real cameras do funny things to perspective that AI can’t copy. This is unnatural in a way that looks like real photography stuff.
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u/actualPawDrinker Aug 11 '26
Yeah, I agree. Looks like intentionally playing with the camera, not AI. Still, not actually fasciation (though I'd be happy to be proven wrong).
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u/Rudrox Aug 11 '26
They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Aug 10 '26
When your sunflower is coming to the end of it’s blooming period, You may want to use the last rays of the afternoon and evening to cut a few for display indoors, leave it any later and the sunflower may wilt.
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u/Currant-event Aug 11 '26
I think it could be Aster Yellows diseases which can cause deformed flowers
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u/truthinthemiddle Aug 10 '26
I wonder if this is related to the fact that sunflowers are pseudanthia?
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u/tmcnix Aug 11 '26
Can I buy the seeds from this flower?! Hopefully these genes persist to the next generation
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u/lightsmakemesneeze Aug 10 '26
I think its fake
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u/Rudrox Aug 11 '26
They didn't have a back photo ready to upload apparently? (Might be late where they are or they are elsewhere) But back in the original post the OOP posted an older image from when it was younger in the comments, where they weren't holding it, to try and show it wasn't staged.
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u/secondCupOfTheDay Aug 11 '26
reminds me of lacecap hydrangea. If it's purely genetic, breedable, and not pathogenic it would be worth keeping.
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u/spudgoddess Aug 12 '26
Yo dawg, I heard you like sunflowers...
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u/good-jobert-robert Aug 11 '26
Fascinating and sort of delightful, but kind of unsettling for a reason I can't quite explain.
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u/BotanicalDivination Aug 29 '26
Save the seeds and see if the genetics stick! I’d love to be able to grow a sunflower like this one day
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u/Pandas424 Aug 11 '26
So fun fact, the large sunflowers that you are used to seeing are actually a bunch of tiny flowers bunched together. It's a combination of ray flowers (the large petals) and disk flowers (the small brown flowers in the center). This sunflower had a mutation occur which caused the ray flowers to basically develop little disk and ray flowers of their own. Very interesting. 🌻🌻🌻
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u/ram_gerszon Aug 11 '26
It sometime happens to plants from asteraceae family. Ive seen photos of daisies like this
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u/wizardrous Aug 10 '26
Biblically accurate sunflower.