 In the garden yesterday my dog broke off this stem of flowers, their narcissus or paper whites, and they have evidence of a really interesting influence on the activation of developmental genes. So the flowers are usually one per stem, like this, with some petals and a cup in the middle. One of these stems though is thicker and it actually has some composite flowers on it. So you can see that there are two different flowers sort of merged together plus a third bud down at the bottom. And if you look at the structure you can see that they're sort of all merged together in a different sort of way. So from this angle you can see that that bud coming out. So this is this is the case when the normal timing of cell differentiation produces sort of a single blossom. But when something's different about either due to a gene mutation or the chemistry inside the cells, the developmental genes turn on at different times and the cells differentiate in a way that creates a different flower structure. So in this particular case it's been very dry and my paper whites usually bloom in December and this is the middle of February and they're just starting to bloom. And I'm curious as to whether or not the dryness or drought on their slow growth this year might be might have influenced the development of this particular stem. It could also be a mutation that allowed the stem to still develop but change the timing of the turning on of those developmental genes. Now if this flower actually produced seeds and it was a mutation that could end up creating a variation where maybe you have multiple flowers on on one stem coming out. Paper whites are related to daffodils and there is a lot of variation in this group of flowers whether just having one large flower on the end of a stem or a cluster of flowers like the paper whites do and variations in between. So there are a lot of selection differences that create the beautiful variety of flowers in this family. Thanks for watching.