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By Upoffmebum

Humble tomato flower

What with all those fancy garden flowers of late, like your Bird of Paradise, your Hibiscus, even your Twisted Dark Orange Celosia, here you have your totally humble and totally common-as-bums tomato plant flower.
Nothing especially attractive about it, it must be said  - it's small, it's yellow, it's everywhere (as in every veggie garden the world over, every spring and summer, for starters).
Yet you can't deny there's something appealing about this flower, in its own modest way. It looks great in contrast to the mother plant's green branches and leaves, especially when there's loads of them all randomly thrown together, making for an appealing, colourful display right up there with the usual botanic superstars, only on a smaller scale. (Yes, you heard right, the tomato flower can do that.)
A fairly ordinary flower structure, it must be acknowledged, but a remarkably resilient one, too. Five petals evenly spread around a central and protruding stamen-like structure, all coloured in a graduated yellow, through to tinges of tomato-plant green at the base and the tip. It's a very sound and reliable formula for a huge range of different flowers, in all sizes and colours, across many regions and environments. 
In the end, for all its commonplace ordinariness, and its humble but charming looks, there's very little not to like. Be churlish if you did.

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