Now I think I've got the gist of it!!
Where typical gardeners or gazers study a plant's (composite) blooms more from the outside-in, botanists study more from the inside-out; separating individual parts by their function and by their contribution to the whole.
So, if I added the very first picture to the DB it might be confusing to readers because parts of the disk flowers are missing, is that right?
woofie said: ...But I'm still wondering how you differentiate between ray flowers and petals.
From what's been said previously, Woofie, I think that the part we see and refer to as a petal sometimes isn't a complete ray flower, either, but just a section of it.
Yes, no?
