OK, enough tormenting of my fellow GP. On to today’s photo challenge.
Is it a miracle? Is it a resurrection plant? How do you explain these large buds emerging from the soil?
A disclaimer: a portion of this photo has been Photoshopped. I promise the altered area was not of plant material. Monday’s answer will include the untouched photo in bigger context
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Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate associate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets.
Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest effort is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019).
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Looks like some kind of bulb. Why shouldn’t they come? Bulbs generally have enough energy and moisture stored to at least START growing. Is there something I’m not seeing?
At first glance I thought it was just lilies sprouting (Are you trying to stump us by posting a tiny low-res photo?) But I think it is yet more strawflowers on top of a rotted out cactus remnant, which looks like from the pile of starburst spines, is a long dead and gone Mammillaria.
This must be Xerophyta humilis, about a day or less after watering.
WHY SHOULD V CALL IT AS BULB flower