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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hate to have to tell you but this is staged. The tree is an oak and the flowers look like azalea flowers someone stuck on.

[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you’re right. I misinterpreted what my friend sent me when she said she honored the dying tree with fallen blossoms. I have asked her for clarification and I’ll update here when I get it.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh! That makes sense. A nice sentiment for what must have been a beautiful tree.

[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

She confirmed that she collected and placed the blossoms!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hah! I was going to ask OP if they didn't just glue azaleas on there. Cool pic anyway, doesn't need the BS story.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cauliflory is a thing, a cool thing, but this isn't it. OP's friend decorated her dying oak tree with azalea blossoms.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Oh, that makes much more sense!

Thanks, I was looking everywhere for some kind of link between a tree being in poor health and expressing caulifloric tendencies, was coming up with nothing. But I swore I saw a post like this one a few days ago so I was going mental trying to find a source that supports what's going on here.