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In between the customers, vendors were constantly on the move, expertly moving buckets of flowers from nearby coolers onto the floor or stripping faded petals and leaves from new bunches of flowers.

A daisy tinged with ultraviolet petals signals to a bumblebee: dinner’s served.

The Scottish poppy does not feature a green leaf and has four-lobed petals, while England and Wales's poppy features two.

The Scottish poppy has the same recognisable blood red colour, but it has four-lobed petals and no leaf.

White edges turn the pulsing shapes into suggestions of natural phenomena — blossoming flower petals and breaking ocean waves — but neither one is realistically described.