Unique stone flowers China

 





In southern China there are mountains, which inexplicably flowers bloom. It happens after a certain period of time. In Duan AECOM Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region is located a few mountains, which periodically "bloom" stone flowers.

They look very nice, as the divine work of a stonemason, and very similar to fresh flowers. Many mountains along their slopes and cliffs, there are flowers. On one of the small plateau of stone colors were so much as "stars in the sky".
Their diameter is, on average, about two centimeters, and some 6-7 inches. They are very solid, and break off a piece very difficult.

Color them brown as the stones on which they "grow", some visible white core that. reflecting the sun's rays makes this creature even more awesome.Stone flowers are a part of the mountain where you are merged with it the petals or the base of the calyx.





Locals say that these flowers appear periodically and then disappear. The period of a few years, and sometimes more than ten years, nobody is counting. Geologists say that the stone flowers are composed mostly of calcium carbonate, and are sedimentary rocks.published





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