The Worlds Tiniest Sunflower

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

"One from the vaults. Originally recorded in April of 2020, this video examines a very rare and tiny little annual bastard of the Sunflower family known as the Barstow Wooly Sunflower - #Eriophyllum mohavense, known only from the Western Mojave Desert around the city of Barstow, California. Why does it have such a restricted distribution? When did it first emerge as a species? How long can the tiny seeds lay in the gravelly soil waiting for the right conditions to germinate? And why is it so damn small?"

Vintage Aerolux Glow Light Bulbs

Vintage Argon glow discharge flower bulb

Published on Apr 11, 2014 CPS2

Vintage Aerolux Light Bulb

Published on May 11, 2014 juke jeff

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First Flower Grown in Space

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"First ever flower grown in space makes its debut! #SpaceFlower #zinnia #YearInSpace"

4.5 Million Baby-Blue-Eyes Blossoms in Hitashi Japan & The Blue Tulip Road

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30,000 Year Old Flowers

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"These regenerated plants, rising like wintry Phoenixes from the Russian ice, are still viable. They produce their own seeds and, after a 30,000-year hiatus, can continue their family line.

The plant owes its miraculous resurrection to a team of scientists led by David Gilichinsky, and an enterprising ground squirrel. Back in the Upper Pleistocene, the squirrel buried the plant’s fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze.

Over millennia, the squirrel’s burrow fossilised and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil and the petrifying bones of mammoths and woolly rhinos. They never thawed. They weren’t disturbed. By the time they were found and defrosted by scientists, they had been buried to a depth of 38 metres, and frozen for around 31,800 years..."

Math & Spirals in Nature

Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [1 of 3]

sprouting flowers

Bottle Cap Flowers

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Ice Cream Flowers

Man on Nail and Flowers

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