Sony Diaries #1044: Milkweeds

Milkweeds are fascinating with their tropics-like rapid growth of broad, light-green leaves, and bright pink flowers in the Spring. Fall finds the plant "diminished" to a brown skeletal shadow of its former self, distinguished only by hard, prehistoric-looking seed pods. These pods break open to reveal seeds borne on elegant tuffs of platinum filaments, ready to be dispersed by wind and water.
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