Flowers Grow From Steel

A Chinese man has reportedly found flowers growing from a steel pipe in his vegetable garden.

“I was cleaning the pipes, then my hand touched something fluffy.”

Ding says he was surprised to see the patch of tiny white flowers growing on the smooth steel.

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“The stems are slimmer than human hair, and altogether there are 38 small white flowers on top,” he said.

The flowers open in the mornings, then close when the sun grows strong. Each flower has a diameter of 1mm.

Ding has consulted his neighbours, who believe the flowers are the legendary Youtan Poluo flower, which blossoms only once every 3,000 years.

“No soil, no water. These flowers can bring me good luck,” he added.

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By Sirius on 21-06-2007

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  1. Comment by Marc

    June 21st, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Those are not flowers. They are Lacewing larvae.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacewing

    http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256550.htm

  2. Comment by Papigiulio

    June 22nd, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Still amazing discovery eh mike! :)

  3. Comment by bob

    September 21st, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    nice.

  4. Comment by Ray

    November 27th, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Yep, it is lacewing eggs. He’s petting eggs from an insect lol.

    http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/glegg.html

  5. Comment by miss le

    September 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    ahahahhaha!!!! those are eggs!!! wow, people are silly

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