A wise man once told me that Life is defined as: what happens to you when you are busy planning something else. So I was busy trying to determine why Blyxa Japonica turns bronze. Then, Life happened and it flowered underwater where everything I'd ever read said that this plant only flowers at the surface. Not a very big flower, only a couple of millimeters.
Here the thin wisp of a stalk started pearling and I thought it was some invasive weed that had infected the Blyxa.
Then it opened and looked similar to the surface forms I'd seen before. Very difficult to photograph due to very small size.
Zooming out for perspective you can just barely make out the flower head in the upper right zone of the Blyxa. If anyone tells you that this plant never flowers underwater then you can tell them Bollyxa.
If I pull back further you get an idea of the scale with Blyxa sitting in the Valley of the Talls.
Now if I could only figure out why it turns bronze... 🙁
Cheers,
Here the thin wisp of a stalk started pearling and I thought it was some invasive weed that had infected the Blyxa.
Then it opened and looked similar to the surface forms I'd seen before. Very difficult to photograph due to very small size.
Zooming out for perspective you can just barely make out the flower head in the upper right zone of the Blyxa. If anyone tells you that this plant never flowers underwater then you can tell them Bollyxa.
If I pull back further you get an idea of the scale with Blyxa sitting in the Valley of the Talls.
Now if I could only figure out why it turns bronze... 🙁
Cheers,
