just learned about superblooms, which is when dormant wildflower seeds germinate at the same time in absurdly high numbers
@kiosk Beautiful!
@kiosk that sounds like an allergy nightmare TBH
@kiosk this is so gorgeous!
@checkervest right?? It's ridiculous
@kiosk Look up Namaqualand, an area in South Africa where the desert gets superblooms :D It's a few hours north of here but I've never been, the blooms are so difficult to predict it's hard to organise going to view them.
@kiosk I had the oportunity to see it in Chile, the southern part of Atacama desert gets some rain every decade or so, and when that happens all dormant seeds germinate and bloom at the same time. Breathtaking.
@Aurochs that's so cool!!
@kiosk Definitely one of the most impressive things I have seen.
Kinkeade Syndrome :D
@kiosk tfw it's a lot of questions but i don't want to investigate, really..
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbloom )
Like, are desert insect populations even close to able to make use of this? Anything evolved to make use of it? Probably not i guess..
@kiosk I got to see one in California a few years back. It wasn't as impressive as these, but it was still really cool!
https://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2017/04/anza-borrego-wildflowers/
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This always reminds me of a nice story where Donald Duck tries to find an extremely rare flower in a desert.
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