Taraxacum officinale agg.
Dandelion
Jane Parker-Clark
Graphite
Artwork size in cm, 36 x 26
£600.00
Taraxacum officinale is the group name for many microspecies. It is thought to have evolved in Eurasia about 30 million years ago before it spread around every other region of the world. It is a perennial plant and easily recognised by its bright yellow flowers and long narrowed irregular deep lobed lanceolate leaves which grow in a rosette directly from the base of the thick tap root. The bright yellow flower approximately 4cm – 5cm across, is borne on a fleshy hollow stalk filled with milky latex sap, and consists of a double row of bracts, the inner long and erect, the outer shorter turned back and clasping the stem. The flower florets are strap-shaped; each is a perfect flower containing both anther and stigma. The ovary is crowned by the corolla which is covered by soft white silky hairs representing the calyx.
Taraxacum officinale has been foraged for thousands of years as a traditional medicine and in culinary the leaves used in salads and the roots roasted to flavour coffee.
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