Specimen · N°014 · Volcano
Cineranthus vulcanicus
Ash-cloaked Flower
It blooms only the year after a volcano erupts.
FOUND 7.5°S 110.4°E · A volcano in Indonesia · ✝ EX · Last seen 2017
It blooms only the year after a volcano erupts.
A slender annual about 12–18 cm tall, with thin green leaves dusted in ash and vivid scarlet tubular flowers. It germinates only on the heat and nutrients an eruption brings, blooming as if returning colour to the ash.
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It blooms only the year after a volcano erupts.
To a slope of nothing but ash, colour suddenly returns.
A volcano in Indonesia, just after an eruption.
On ash slopes where no plant has returned, the Ash-cloaked Flower appears all at once.
Thin green leaves dusted with ash rise here and there across the slope.
At their tips, vivid scarlet tubular flowers open.
