A Google search for "taraxacology" yielded nothing but a helpful comment from the engine: "Your original search: taraxacology returned zero results. The alternate spelling: toxicology returned the results below."
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Too rainy today for Dandelion suns, really - but that was the time taken by the processing in this hamatiforme case: from Monday to Friday. I've been looking at Dandelions since the taraxacological excursion last Saturday ... just thinking that maybe perhaps it would be possible for me to find an identifiable specimen of one of the six common Weed Dandelions described by Rydberg in the latest issue of Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift on S-weed terrain. The season has been so early this year, that when I get interested, the prime season for Dandelion identifiability is almost over. This one at least had several buds, and an open flower that ALMOST made it to the scanner without closing. And a nicely coloured central vein, that made me suppose this might be T. piceatum. On Thursday morning I found the time to submit a cleaned-up scan to Erik Ljungstrand - who doubted my ID, and had an alternative suggestion - although the image I had posted didn't give enough information: IF the tips of the buds were dark, and the central nerve had red-green striations, he'd say I'd got a T. hamatiforme. Well, since I always scan at a greater resolution than what I put on the Web, it wasn't hard to show magnified details of the relevant characters - as you can see (if you know what to look for) Erik was on the spot with his suggestions.
Since I liked the resulting image on a black background so much, I've abandoned my usual album background - to show the mode I find most useful for these electronic identification exchanges.
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