What Do You Call This?

I was working on the monthly Helm Insights Newsletter...

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when my curiosity got the better of me.  

I went down the Reddit rabbit hole.

blowballs

puffballs

wish flowers

Those are some of the names for this delightful, elegant structure that has the unfortunate technical name of Pappus.

But hysterically, someone asked what this is called in other languages and that's where the real fun started.

Apparently, I'm a lexiphile or logophile - someone who likes words. Cause I spent more than a few minutes reading about this

• In French Dent de Lion, In German  Löwenzahn, In Portuguese dente de leão  - Lion's Tooth
• In Dutch paardenbloem  - horse flower
• In Hungarian Gyermeklán - children's weed necklace
• In Japanese Tanpopo - puffs found near rice fields

But my favorite, which apparently refers to the dandelion more so than the puff, is the French term le pissenlits / wet the bed, because it is a diuretic.

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Y'all I have no leadership lesson here except to say...follow your curiosity. Even if it's down a rabbit hole and you lose a little time. It's always a good time to learn something new.