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Taraxacum pseudoroseum is not completely pink: it sports a yellow centre, that alongside its pink outside rays gives the air of the most perfect sunset.
The little T tarda with its yellow centre and white petals made the garden sparkle in April, and the multi-headed ivory T turkestanica was worth exploring for sheer curiosity value.
By contrast the thermal lily is just a centimetre wide - with tiny satin white flowers with a butter yellow centre.
It seems probable that at least those hybrids with inflorescences appearing purple with a yellow centre have been repeatedly formed from the same parental lineages.
Focke's and Winge's crosses yielded hybrids of similar morphology to Linnaeus', with purple outer ligules and yellow inner florets in the inflorescence, but Lotsy's showed a range of phenotypes not having a yellow centre to the inflorescence (Clausen 1966).
Intriguingly, earlier than any of these reports, the 14th Volume of the Flora Danica, published in 1780, contains a colour plate (DCCXCVII) labelled as T. porrifolius in which the inflorescence has a yellow centre surrounded by purple outer ligules (Müller 1780); this may have been a hybrid found within a T. porrifolius population.
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There are only a few clumps: dainty lemon petals with egg-yolk yellow centres, fresh-green rosette of leaves.
The native species from China is 75 cm (2.5 feet) tall, with white to violet flowers having yellow centres.
While not especially ornamental, it has been crossed with Austrian briar (R. foetida), to produce the Penzance hybrids with pinkish flowers with yellow centres.
In Experiment 1 we studied the response of honeybees to the presence of white or yellow crab spiders, T. spectabilis, on white daisies with yellow centres, B. alba (Fig. 1).
Bidens alba has white inflorescences with yellow centres (Fig. 1C), it was one of the dominant flowering species in our study site and it was commonly used by crab spiders as hunting platform.
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