When the stone blooms, it shows this phenomenon.

On several hills in Du 'an Yao Autonomous County, stones will blossom! Not long ago, a netizen reported it on the website of South China Morning Post and posted a photo of a stone blooming. In the photo, the hard stone is blooming with petals. This report has aroused great interest from netizens, and everyone is talking about it. Because stone flowers are very similar to real flowers, some netizens suspect that the photos are "false reports" after post-processing.

Is it a wonder of nature or a false report that the stone blooms? Recently, the reporter came to Kurenai Wataru Village, Chengjiang Township, Du 'an to explore the mystery of "Shihua".

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At the foot of the "stone flower" everywhere "open".

1On the morning of October 28th, 10, the reporter and a villager drove to Kurenai Wataru Village at the foot of the mountain. The green hills next to the village are rolling.

Halfway up the hill, the villagers who walked in front couldn't help shouting, "Look, Shihua!" " "The reporter, like a treasure, climbed up in three steps-the" stone flower "in front of him is like the stars in the sky, embedded in the stone halfway up the mountain. Unfortunately, there are many stone flowers here, but they are all very small, and the diameter of each flower is only about two centimeters.

After walking for another hour, the reporter came to a cliff. Stepping on the rugged rock, I suddenly found that the "stone flower" under my feet was in full bloom. The reporter saw that the flowers on the stone are lifelike, bigger, more and more beautiful than those on the hillside: some are in bud, some are competing for beauty, and some have withered and withered, which is amazing. The big flowers are six or seven centimeters in diameter, and the small ones are only two or three centimeters. Petals are mostly brown, and the color gradually becomes lighter from outside to inside. Some "stone flowers" have white flower hearts, which will reflect light slightly under the sunlight.

"Stone flowers" are unevenly distributed, concentrated in the range of tens of square meters in the ravine, and there are also a few on the cliffs next to them. According to the villagers, there are also blooming "stone flowers" on several other mountains.

The reporter pinched the "stone flower" with his hand and tried to break it off, but the stone flower and the stone are integrated, and the petals are as hard as stones and cannot be "picked".

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"Stone flower" also has a "flowering period"?

Some netizens who admitted the authenticity of the photos further suggested that stone flowers not only did happen, but also had a "flowering period". In other words, stone flowers, like real flowers, bloom every once in a while, and the interval may be several years or decades. A netizen in Guilin also suggested that there is a kind of stone flower in my hometown, which is "once in ten years".

The reporter searched online and found a similar situation mentioned by netizens: for thousands of years, there was a cliff in Sandu County, Guizhou Province that could "lay eggs" constantly. Every 30 years, the stone eggs would "lay eggs" from the cliff and roll to the ground. The local villagers are proud of having such a stone egg, believing that it can make this family prosperous and have no worries about food and clothing.

Is the "stone flower" in Du 'an growing up like the stone egg in Guizhou? If it is growing, how long is the interval between flowering and flowering? & lt/img & gt；