Fasciation

This euphorbia wulfenii has been growing these flattened flowering shoots for a couple of years now.
I've seen it on Forsythia as well.
Has anyone got any other pics of the same deformation on other plants.

 

I don't have any pics, but I've seen it on a few plants - mostly woody ones. One was a forsythia, can't remember the others. I believe it's due to some damage, often frost, sometimes pest or a physical thing, when the stem is forming, which leaves this fascinating fasciation!!

It's such an odd thing, isn't it?

 

Deformed, but unusual.

 

The word itself is interesting. It comes from the Latin for a bundle of twigs and is also the base for Fascism, from the original badge of the Italian Fascist party badge.
Sedums are often prone to this kind of growth. Many of the so called' crested' forms are this.

 

Thanks palustris, I had no idea that the word came from that.
A bundle of twigs is about right I'd say.

 

i got plenty of fasciation, but only got pictures of these.

The courgettes that grew on a joined stem

The delph was identical to all it's neighbours, but it stopped growing at 6", has done every year

The arum with a multiple spadix.

 

good ones compostee