[Celerity]

How can a flower bloom “Once every 3000 years” ? Sounds like a recipe for immediate extinction.

Global Warming perhaps ?

[Berlin_Freeper]

That’s convenient.

[muawiyah]

"He who turns the wheel" may be on the way ~ or it's just a story.

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?

[blackdog]

My grandmother had an old plant she neglected for decades. My aunt took it when my grandmother became infirmed and she neglected it as well. It was more brown than green most of the time. Then when my aunt got old and infirmed, I took the plant and repotted it, fed it, watered it dutifully. It grew to massive proportions and produced this huge flower that smelled like a thousand gardenias. I was so proud!

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.

[GeronL]

interesting

[Sir Napsalot]

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.

[blam]

"All Buddhas come into the world but rarely, and are hard to meet ... like the udumbara flower, in which all take delight." (from the Lotus Sutra)

[fishtank]

ping

[SIDENET]

"A lot of sick people have been coming in to see the flowers," Kim told CNNGo. "They sit in front of the flowers and some of them say they feel better afterwards."

You feel better after just seeing the flowers? Hell, I bet that if you ate one of those flowers, you'd be completely cured.

I'm just saying.