Posted on 09/01/2011 2:30:03 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
Korean news outlets are reporting that an udumbara -- a legendary flower in Buddhist literature believed to bloom once every 3,000 years -- has sprouted at a humble Family Mart.
Store manager Kim Jong-woo was cleaning when he spotted the 17 tiny flowers growing on the window.
He recognized the flowers, he said, from images on television.
How can a flower bloom “Once every 3000 years” ? Sounds like a recipe for immediate extinction.
Global Warming perhaps ?
That’s convenient.
Or it's both.
Probably just my new grandson kicking his mother's belly today. It is time.
You guys keep your eyes on the Galactic Center tonight, OK?
The entire plant then died. Letting it become lush and abundant triggers the flowering cycle. The flowering cycle is followed by complete death. If I had continued to neglect it and pass it by in it's struggle, it would still be alive today.
It can be a Dickens world for plants too out there.
interesting
My father has an albino red squirrel collecting Black Walnuts on his property. Does that portend and kind of renewal or doom?
It IS!
It looks like Edelwiess of the window caulk.
Should read: Does that portend any kind of renewal or doom?
obviously the 3000 year thing is a myth
Squirrels are conservatives. They have even learned to cross the road using the electrical wire.
All ‘fig trees’ have flowers enclosed inside the ‘fruit’.
The ‘rarely seen’ flowers may be, I believe, mutants. Mutation does occur naturally once in a while, and thus you get to see its flowers.
Note: I haven’t click on the CNN link.
They were heard to say “I want my Mapo!”
ping
My gran grew orchids. I don’t have the patience. I’m hoping for random Edelweiss of the window caulk.
And you are letting the squirrel have them?
You need instructed in some American customs ~ gather them yourself. Spead them in the drive. Just leave them there until the hulls fall off. Then gather them up and wash them off.
Get your chunk of steel rail and a 2 pound hammer.
Bust them up so you can see the meat.
Take them in the house and sit at the table until midnight picking the meat out of the shells.
'em are some powerful hunks of walnut!
If you can find a hickory nut tree, you'll probably need the 2.5 pound hammer! The squirrels aren't going to fight you for those though.
The hulls are the problem. They stain anything they touch if they are fresh but they have such a unique smell. I assume putting them in the driveway helps remove the hulls buy car tire? I think the squirrels would have them hidden before the hulls even dried out.
If you let the squirrels eat their fill you'll want to eat them before they try to estivate for early Winter. i recommend simply carving them up like you would chicken, use a little flower and fry them in an oiled skillet ~ when done make a gravy. These suckers are outstanding on fresh bisquits.
A similar story was posted a year or two ago. I occasionally get those things on my crotons. I believe it’s some type of fungus.
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