Tezos

One At A Time

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Freesia × hybrida Common name: Freesia Every spring on Hachijojima, a volcanic island about 150 miles south of Tokyo, over 350,000 freesias bloom at the foot of a dormant volcano, and people travel there just to stand inside the smell. The fragrance is citrus and sweet at the same time, and the pink and red ones are the strongest, which is backwards from what most people expect, since usually white flowers carry the most scent. The plant itself grows in a way that makes no obvious sense. The stalk goes straight up and then turns sideways at a right angle, like something interrupted it, and the flowers only open on one side. Zygomorphic. Everything facing one direction. And they open one at a time, never together, each bloom waiting for the previous one to finish before it starts. If you cut the stem, it releases ethylene, a gas that kills the flowers still closed on the same stalk. So the act of taking one kills the rest. In numerology, freesias correspond to the number nine, which stands for selflessness. That tracks, actually. A flower that poisons itself when cut, blooming one at a time on a volcanic island. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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freesia

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purple

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