What is this?

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It's a dandelion clock. Or is this a trick question?

I'm pretty sure that's a dead dandelion.

A dandelion clock. Against a backdrop of grass.

Is this a trick question?

It's not dead, it's gone to seed.

A question about plants/gardening to which I know the answer. That's a first.

When I was little, we used to blow dandelion clocks to tell the time. They were very unreliable. 😊

Dandelion. That's the seeds. They also help you tell the time

I just want to see if anybody else calls it what my dh insists they're known as. He's insisting it isn't just his family and it's the word people use for them specifically when they are dead and you can blow them. Never heard it before and neither has a google search!!

It’s a dandelion

Dandelion (clock). What does your DH say it's called?

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It's not dead, it's gone to seed.

Sorry, I know what I meant but couldn't think how to phrase it!

Dandelion clock

m.youtube.com/watch/UQ_QqtXoyQw

Oh, I’m intrigued now because your last pot has stirred a little not-quite-within-my-grasp recollection that we might have called dandelions something different when I was young.

Please tell us OP!

I would call it a Blow Clock, not sure if that s a regional thing or a family thing

Is it dandelion flowers that are 'pee the beds'? And buttercups can determine if you like butter or not

I wondered whether this was going to be one of those pictures that goes viral on the internet where everyone sees a dandelion clock until they're told it's actually a microwave oven at a weird angle.

Dandelion seed.

Floobys. Apparently they are called Floobys. He's teaching our toddler how to "blow Floobys"

It's not a fucking thing.

I don't know why it's making me so angry!

Floobys? WTF? Never heard of it.

Oh my god I'd have to kill him. Floobys?!

I bet his Dad made it up to take the piss out of him when he was wee

Nope. Never heard of Floobys. It's definitely some weird family name.

Never heard them called floobies before.

I know what they are but when I was young we called them ‘fairies’.