Field guide No. 624

A sunflower leans over a field, and out of its face drift dozens of black discs, each with a faint bright ring like an eclipse. The flower has been storing them up all summer.

Black eclipses over a sunflower

Seeds that block the sun.

A sunflower leans over a field, and out of its face drift dozens of black discs, each with a faint bright ring like an eclipse. The flower has been storing them up all summer.

Field noteSunflower seeds should be small, striped and edible. These fly off as tiny eclipses, each with its own ring of light.

Specimen
No. 624
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Where it doesn’t exist
A field of sunflowers under a big sky.
Nearest existing relative
A sunflower.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics