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.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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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.
Oh! That makes sense. A nice sentiment for what must have been a beautiful tree.
She confirmed that she collected and placed the blossoms!
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.
Cauliflory is a thing, a cool thing, but this isn't it. OP's friend decorated her dying oak tree with azalea blossoms.
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.