Keyed Out #115 — Dianthus barbatus

Question 1

Cut an unripe fruit across and the cavity inside is single and undivided, its seeds attached to a free column rising up the centre that touches the wall nowhere.

Accepted Answer

pink family

Question 2

Each of its five petals narrows abruptly into a long stalk-like base held down inside the flower's tube, with the broad outer part standing clear above the rim.

Accepted Answer

Caryophyllaceae

Question 3

Its sepals are fused into a firm cylindrical tube, and a pair or more of small leafy scales sits pressed flat against the outside of that tube's base.

Accepted Answer

Dianthus

Question 4

Exactly two slender threads emerge from the mouth of the flower's green tube, not three of them and not five.

Accepted Answer

Dianthus

Question 5

Its flowers are crowded many together into a dense flat-topped head 3 to 5 inches (7 to 13 cm) across, rather than carried one or two to a stem.

Accepted Answer

Dianthus barbatus

Question 6

Its leaves are broad, flat and plain green, tapering to a point, rather than narrow, stiff, grey-blue and grass-like.

Accepted Answer

Dianthus barbatus