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Carolannie

I think silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) is hard to photograph because at least this year the catkins are so plentiful they look more like grayish strings tossed on the shrubs. However, a close up of the male plant's catkins shows a profusion of anthers entangled with each other on a long chain of gray to pink flowers.
@garry

Silk tassel bush catkins look like the flowers are growing out of the top flowers in long chains, but they are growing on the sides of a felty gray stem. The flowers look like little gray and pink bells hanging from the bells above them, full of anthers ready to release pollen into the crisp drizzly spring air. The long catkins sprout from the branches in small dense clusters that look like, surprise, long tassels! There are leaves around these flowers, round and evergreen with edges curling under.
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Joe :tinoflag:

@carolannie @garry , a first for me (as in 'never seen before), stunningly beautiful, thanks.

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