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Frost Flowers

It is as beautiful as it is rare. A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.

Conditions have to be just so for frost flowers to form. Early winter and late autumn are the optimum time to come across them as although the weather conditions must be freezing it is vital that the ground is not'. Frost flower formations are also referred to as frost castles, ice castles, ice blossoms, or crystallofolia

This looks delicious…like a pretty popsicle or cotton candy.  I would probably eat it…

Source and Image: http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/12/frost-flowers-natures-exquisite-ice.html