Carnation Old World is a silk wallhanging that combines multi‐scaled images of Carnations using macro photography and images from a Scanning Electron Microscope. $1400 92h x 48w
The carnation belongs to the family Caryophyllaceae. It is a perfect flower containing both male and female reproductive structures. It has a whorl of notched fringed petals with a superior ovary. There may be five or ten stamens and two fused carpels with separate styles. Carnations are protandrous; “the stigma is not receptive to pollen grains until one week or more after anthers have shed them.” Wild carnations depend on insect pollinators. “Floriculture carnations require pollination by hand to set seed because they have too many petals for pollinators to access pollen, and because they are mostly housed in greenhouses or polytunnels that preclude access by potential pollinators.” (1) The Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) flower is bilaterally symmetrical with fused petals that form a tube structure with lips. The upper lip has two lobes, the bottom, three. There are four stamen. The pistil has two fused carpals and a single style. The ovary is superior and has axile placentation. Snapdragons are pollinated by bumblebees. 1. The Biology of Dianthus caryophyllus L. (Carnation) Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, Australian Government Department of Health. June 2015. https://bangladeshbiosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Biology_of_Carnation_Au-1.pdf