My non-traditional (simply because it has rounded corners; plus, it's not a commercial postcard) MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a SUNFLOWER (Helianthus annuus) [watch out: this last word is written with 2 Ns and 2 Us!]

"Heliotropism

Whole seed (right) and kernel with hull removed (left)

A common misconception is that sunflowers track the sun.^[7] In fact, mature flowerheads typically face east and do not move. The leaves and buds of young sunflowers do exhibit heliotropism (sun turning). Their orientation changes from east to west during the course of a day.^[8] The movements become a circadian response and when plants are rotated 180 degrees, the old response pattern is still followed for a few days, with leaf orientation changing from west to east instead.^[9] The leaf and flowerhead bud phototropism occurs while the leaf petioles and stems are still actively growing, but once mature, the movements stop. These movements involve the petioles bending or twisting during the day then unbending or untwisting at night."

"Mathematical model of floret arrangement

Illustration of Vogel's model for n=1 ... 500

A model for the pattern of florets in the head of a sunflower was proposed by H. Vogel in 1979.^[18]This is expressed in polar coordinates

where θ is the angle, r is the radius or distance from the center, and n is the index number of the floret and c is a constant scaling factor. It is a form of Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the golden ratio (55/144 of a circular angle, where 55 and 144 are Fibonacci numbers) and gives a close packing of florets. This model has been used to produce computer graphics representations of sunflowers.^[19]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower

All this mathematics...does it look to you like BLIND EVOLUTION?

Or GENETIC ENGINEERING...from above...and outside Earth?

:)

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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)

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KIWIFRUIT on a traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD from USA

"The kiwifruit, often shortened to kiwi in many parts of the world, is the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia.

The most common cultivars of kiwifruit are oval, about the size of a large hen's egg (5–8 cm / 2–3 in long and 4.5–5.5 cm / 1¾–2 in diameter). It has a fibrous, dull brown-green skin and bright green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds. The fruit has a soft texture and a sweet but unique flavor, and today is a commercial crop in several countries, such as Italy, New Zealand, Chile, France, Greece, Iran, Japan, USA, Portugal, South Korea and Spain."

"Also known as the Chinese gooseberry,^[1] the fruit was renamed for export marketing reasons in the 1950s; briefly to melonette, and then later by New Zealand exporters to kiwifruit. The name "kiwifruit" comes from the kiwi — a brown flightless bird and New Zealand's national symbol. Kiwi is also a colloquial name for the New Zealand people."


Chinese gooseberry was too long of a name; also too long was Hairy bush fruit (毛木果 máo mù guǒ).


"The fruit had a long history before it was commercialized as kiwifruit, and therefore had many other names.

In Chinese:^[3]

• Macaque peach (獼猴桃 Pinyin: míhóu táo): the most common name
• Macaque pear (獼猴梨 míhóu lí)
• Vine pear (藤梨 téng lí)
• Sunny peach (陽桃 yáng táo), a name originally referring to the kiwifruit, but often refers to thestarfruit
• Wood berry (木子 mù zi)
• Hairy bush fruit (毛木果 máo mù guǒ)
• Unusual fruit or wonder fruit (奇異果 Pinyin: qíyì guǒ, Jyutping: kei4 ji6 gwo2): the most common name in Taiwan and Hong Kong, a quasi-transliteration of "kiwifruit", literally "strange fruit""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit

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Happy Sunday Stamps meme!

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My non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine cover as a "postcard"; an "Insulate the home" stamp from the GO GREEN series of USA; and an FDI pictorial postmark from USPS

My non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine cover as a "postcard"; an "Insulate the home" stamp from the GO GREEN series of USA; and an FDI pictorial postmark from USPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)