Better mood, better blossoms

A visual follow-up to this post from Wednesday:



Huh. Just learned something about magnolias: "People who study the evolution of flowering plants say that magnolia flowers are similar to some of the very first flowers. Among the magnolia blossom's primitive features are the facts that, in contrast to standard blossoms, they bear many stamens and many pistils. The stamens are arranged in spiraling rows, and both stamens and pistils are attached to a fingerlike receptacle. To understand why these features are considered primitive, you need to know a lot of technical stuff we can't go into here. However, one easy thing to understand is that some of the oldest fossil flowers discovered are similar to magnolia blossoms."





These flowering quince blossoms
will soon have their own post.
Simply stunning.




The sight of these cherry and plum/apricot trees in bloom brings a bit of sadness. It would be so nice if trees looked like this throughout the season. The color and aura at night are especially enthralling.