What is the center part of a flower, excluding the leaves called? A quick search yields "pistil", but that's hardly an everyday word. It appears to be particularly anatomical. I'm looking for a word that even the least educated Anglophone uses for the middle (usually yellow) parts of flowers. If it exists, of course.
The center part of a flower called commonly
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There is a clash between scientific language and everyday language.
For example a scientist would not say that this is "a flower", it is a cluster of simple tube flowers (the yellow parts) surrounded by a ring of flowers with one elongated white petal.
The yellow part isn't a pistil. Each tiny yellow floret has its own pistil and two stamens, but you'd need a microscope to see them.
In simple everyday language, the yellow part is just "the middle of the flower".