A form of foliage decoration emphasizing complex individual flowers, usually consisting of eight or more inventively drawn foliate elements radiating from a node in a spiral stem. The ornament has also been called octopus flower, which perhaps better describes its appearance. It is best known in manuscript initials, in the period from 1140 -70 and among the finest examples are in the work of Master Hugo in the Bury Bible, but it also makes an appearance in stone sculpture, as at St Albans (shown here).