Lucky this Autumn has been so warm and sunny as we've been awaiting the opening of these pretty strawflowers for all of it!
The central bloom I had thought was open, but I just found out that what look like golden petals are in fact 'bracts' - or a specialised type of leaf, which in this case is papery in texture. So the flower is hiding still, deep within those papery layers.
Always interested in the etymology of flowers I was fascinated to learn that the name means a combination of dry from the Greek 'xeros' and golden, also from the Greek, 'chrysum'. Made me think back to school days and copying from the 'banda' (sp?) machine, which was always damp with methylated spirits and then thinking ahead to the innovation of the 'Xerox' machine...was that why it was named - 'dry' copying??
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