Fasciation is described as abnormal fusion and flattening of plant organs, usually stems, resulting in ribbon-like, coiled and contorted tissue. The growing tip or apical meristem of the plant, which normally produces cylindrical tissue, instead becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of the growth or it splays out to the sides. There are a number of possibilities as to why fasciation occurs that relate to hormonal, genetic, bacterial, fungal, viral and environmental causes.
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Eliza Waters 
Interesting! I’ve never seen that.
Thanks, Ellen. It’s a first for me in foxglove, but I see it in composite flowers (daisy family) fairly often.
Fascinating. I learned something new today. Thanks prof Eliza 😀
😀 You’re welcome, my pleasure!
Fascinating Fasciation 🌼🌼🌼
Yes! 🙂
That looks a bit weird but not really abnormal. I’ve seen this phenomenon on different plants, most recently Erysimum “Bowles Mauve” wallflower. For some reason it gives me the willies.
Ha, yes, they are a bit freakish! 😀
I love foxgloves and have never seen nor read of this. Thanks for the education Eliza! I wonder if the bees still visit them?
Thanks, Denzil, my pleasure. I expect bees don’t mind the difference, so long as there is nectar and pollen.
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Weird isn’t it? But quite pretty. I’ve seen it in Delphinium and Echinacea. I wonder if it only happens in cerain plantss.
Thank you, Liz. I’ve seen it mostly in composite flowers, like zinnia, rudbeckia and goldenrod. Some plants might be more disposed to the deviation.
Weird and wonderful, and just a tiny bit scary…. what next?!😉
Yes, little freaks of nature. 🙂
What a beautiful color! I thought what Karen wrote. Very interesting….I’ve seen it on my Foxglove, but didn’t know what it was…..now I need to find the photos.
Thank you, Alice. I’ve never seen it on foxglove, usually on composite flowers.
Interesting. I’ve had two beautiful pink foxglove for years, but this year the plants never appeared. I miss them.
Being biennials, they can disappear. Every year, I save a bloom stalk for seed when deadheading, and sprinkle it about like a salt shaker when mature to ensure future plants.
Wow….how weird! I never would have guessed that flower grew on a foxglove. It looks like a passion flower or something.
Yes, it has been interesting watching it develop. It is only in the terminal bud, which in foxglove are the last to bloom, but in this case is the first. Definitely weird!
I really enjoy finding fasciated plants. I keep a little file of ‘oddities,’ and so far I have about a dozen tucked in there: even one of our Texas dandelions. Some of the anomalies I’ve found aren’t precisely fasciated, since they lack the flattened stems, but they’re just as interesting.
I always thought it was due to insects nipping the buds at a certain point in their development, but I see that there are multiple causes.
A new one for me, too.
I’ve never seen it in foxglove, but more often in zinnias and black-eyed Susans.
How interesting, I learned something new today! Thank you, Eliza. 🙂 (At first I thought I read Foxglove Fascination…) Will be looking out for instances of fasciation now.
My pleasure, Barbara. I see it most often in composite flowers like zinnia and black-eyed Susan, and stems of celosia and goldenrod.
Weird and delightfully fascinating!
Yes, truly unusual… thanks, Dale!
🙂
Fasciation! Thanks, I learned a new word!
My pleasure, Hien!
I’ve never heard of such, Eliza — thanks for opening my mind to new possibilities! And what a pretty, delicate color this is!
Thanks, Debbie. It has opened wider today and is turning whiter. It looks quite different than the others, very much like a daisy.
That’s the first time I’ve seen a foxglove do that! I’ve come across more fasciation in plants of late. I’ve even seen it in Aloe flowers. I don’t know if I’m just quicker to notice it, or if something in the environment is causing it to occur more frequently.
I’ve wondered the same thing, but I guess it is a fairly common occurrence with multiple causes. The site I quoted suggests cutting it and disposing of it in case it is viral or bacterial, but I’ve not noticed its happening here all that much.
Weird! The flower doesn’t really look distorted, just like something else … funnily enough a zinnia 😆? I saw this same type of damage in a couple of common digitalis purpurea here last year.
I guess it is more common than we thought!
Interesting, and that’s a lovely shade of yellow!
Thank you, Donna. I wish it would stay that color, but as it further develops, it is turning white… it looks very daisy-like today!
Curious. Does it effect the same plant more than once?
It seems to appear randomly to only one blossom at a time. There are several things that they attribute it to, so I suppose if the plant was perennial and it was a virus, it might appear again. However, I’ve never seen that myself, mostly I’ve seen it on annuals like zinnia and biennals like black eyed-Susan and this foxglove.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for this.
Very interesting. I’ve never heard of the word or seen examples before, but that may merely be that a more conventional bloom has drawn my attention.
Thanks, Vicki. It is more common amongst daisies, but happens occasionally among other flowers.
I’m as intrigued as the rest of your readers, Eliza. I’ve not heard this term before.
Thanks, Alys. I’ve seen it more often in daisy family flowers, but I guess it can happen any where.
I learned something new too! This will be extra pretty once all the blooms open.
Thanks, Denise. All the other flowers are normal bell-shapes, but the terminal bud is an anomaly.
Interesting! I must look out for this.
It’s a zinnia wannabe! 😀
Perfect foxglove for Weird Wednesday, Eliza. I’ve seen this before in plants, nice to know there is a science behind it. Lovely photo, lovely big yard.
Thank you very much, Jet!
Wow!
🙂 IKR?
Totally 🥰
Interesting! And beautiful. I kind of like weird and unusual. 🙂
Thanks, Robin. It’s the first I’ve seen fasciation in foxgloves. It looks very much like a hibiscus. 🙂
A bloom that rebels against the norm. Fasciation is fascinating. 🙂 So far I’ve not seen this anomaly on our foxgloves.
Definitely a first for me. I’ve seen it in zinnia, black-eyed Susan and goldenrod…all composite flowers.
The garden is a constant source of amazement.
Indeed it is!
Great job capturing the details. 😊
Thank you, Pepper. ❤
OH, gardens give us many treasures. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Thank you, Eunice!
This is all new to me! Love the yellow color!
Thank you, Julie! It eventually turns white, quite a pretty anomaly, nonetheless. 🙂
Fasciation is fine fun.
It surely is. A term I learned from you as I recall. 🙂
Its very interesting. A new one for me to.
Thanks, Rameen