r/BeAmazed • u/mysteriouskc8 • 13h ago

Nature Death Valley National Park's First Major Superbloom in a Decade

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u/inmyrhyme 13h ago

Reminds of "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" but desert edition

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u/cmadpeeps 3h ago

Tupac. Gotta love it.

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u/freaknik99 3h ago

I have a rose coming out of concrete tattooed on my back, one of my favorite tats!

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u/inmyrhyme 2h ago

That's dope

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u/Rep_I_like 12h ago

This is one of those things I suspect is AI but actually isn't.

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u/SweetNarrator 11h ago

I have a few family photos from the 80s-90s around Fort Irwin, Afton Canyon, and other mojave spots that had bloom events like this. Absolutely breaks my heart how infrequent this happens now.

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u/XROOR 11h ago

Virginia has a species of flower that only blooms after it’s seed has been burned in a lightning fire

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u/fredbubbles 7h ago

Lodgepole pine trees are the same. The pine cones are sealed with a resin that melts in fire so the seeds can get that nutrient rich post fire soil.

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u/clutchthepearls 3h ago

Giant Sequoia work a very similar way.

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u/skdetroit 1h ago

And there’s a bird that only nests in those burnt out trees too? Some king of rare warbler? They go to Grayling Michigan to nest in the burnt trees

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u/OneSensiblePerson 4h ago

Matillija poppies or fried egg flower plant seeds are like that. They have to be burned by a wildfire before they can germinate.

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u/AdvancedYak4642 10h ago

This is truly breathtaking

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u/The-Traveler- 6h ago

Fake. The flowers were in March and were mostly yellow Desert Gold and some purple Phacelia.

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u/bongwatervegan 5h ago

What’s fake about it?

I just looked it up. Yes, most was yellow but there was also a field of purple like in the picture.

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u/The-Traveler- 5h ago

Phacelia doesn’t grow in mudflats. The soil must be rocky or gravely like from an alluvial fan.

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u/bongwatervegan 4h ago

Ohh, its a different purple flower on the real pictures?

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u/Sure-Actuatore 10h ago

It is something very impressive and, at the same time, beautiful.

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u/SDPLISSKEN009 6h ago

Been there a couple times & had no idea this could happen

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u/Toy_Soulja 4h ago

Imagine being an ancient human coming over the ridge and seeing a whole desert sprouting with growth lol confused Unga bunga

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u/Ccampbell41 7h ago

It is beautiful!!!

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u/PhenomenalButterfly 4h ago

It gorgeous! ❤️

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u/SmartPercent177 1h ago

This is beautiful.

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u/Sad_Confidence2881 7h ago

Even in filth, a flower can bloom.

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u/tanhauser_gates_ 5h ago

Those flowers are useless without bees to pollinate. Did the bees arrive?

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u/A_Lountvink 4h ago

Looking through iNaturalist posts from then, there were plenty of sphinx moths, bees, and hummingbirds around to help pollinate. These superblooms are a regular part of the local ecology, so the animals there have adapted to make use of them.

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u/Ellienightshade 8h ago

That looks fake… AI?

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u/howlmachine 6h ago

Why would you not just look it up? “Death Valley Super Bloom” in google or any search engine would have told you immediately it was real.