Frost Flowers

I love natural phenomena! From the spider shrouds I wrote about a couple of months ago to these incredible flowers formed by ice!

They’re frost crystals that form on quickly freezing sea water into these amazing pointed shapes resembling blossoms. They appear when the atmosphere is much colder than the ice, so they are rarely seen outside of the Arctic and very cold places. They are a strange ephemeral sort of beauty, disappearing very quickly once the sun touches them.

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Magical ice formations can also be found from the water dripping off of flowers and plants, creating frozen petal shapes and even frost “beards”. More on sea-ice flowers here.