March-Stalkers Mighty: 16a/22

[whit_merule]

(Requies.)

Okay, so. Cas could make answering “how do you want your eggs” sound like he was the guy in that old song, trying to work out how close to Scylla’s cliff he had sail to avoid toppling ass over ears into Charybdis. Clearly, he needed to laugh more.

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[auroramama]

(The most fried-egg-like icon I have.) Their sweetness... oh, my.

[whit_merule]

... I actually can't tell whether that's a daffodil or an iris. *peers*

[auroramama]

It's a tricky one, isn't it? Most irises, like this icon, have three falls and three standard petals; but there are some varieties, especially in the Intermediate Bearded group, that throw occasional flowers with four falls and four standards. Especially in the flower at the tip of the flowering stalk, the first one to open. To me, the iris flower seems very different as a 4-mer to the 3-mer version. Is that an Akebia three-petaled flower in your icon?

[whit_merule]

I honestly don't know! I took the photo in my mother's garden, and it's of "that vine outside my old bedroom window which we found once when we were wandering through the Botanic Gardens and Mum fell in love with and searched until she found one and which neither of us have ever seen anywhere else". Not a very practical scientific name, I'm sure.

... but having just googled that, yes, definitely, that would be the family at least - that's how the flowers are structured and hang, and that's how the leaves grow. :) Oo, and someone made a crocheted version...