The rock-rose, for instance, is given six petals instead of five.
A flower is an ideal metaphor for this: for it withers, scattering its petals, just when we find it to have attained its optimum beauty.
What if it gets the idea by watching the petals of a flower unfold?
There is a space or absence between any two petals that symbolizes the ontological difference between determinate entities.
Instead, they must avoid absorbing words, pictures, and ideas that will transform them into the "crushed petals" or dead leaves of fallen womanhood.
The female flower has five, thick and leathery orange/red petals that open to up to one meter in diameter.
The number of "sunflower petals" indicates the number of cases represented at that data point.
One of these petals contains the critical point.
