After pulling the plant out and leaving it in a pile, why do some of the flowers become fluffy seed balls by the next day. Shouldn’t the plant be dead by this point?
I know it takes a regular unplucked dandelion a couple of days to go from flower to seed, so why is the plucked plant able to transition to the seed stage so quickly after being plucked?
In: Biology
This is sort of the same as a flower bud in a vase still opening. While they don’t have their roots to keep receiving nutrients, their biological processes can still work until they run out of the nutrients that are already in them. If you cut the flower off soon before it would have seeded, it will still have enough energy to do so after being cut.
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