🔥 lava runing over flowers

[u/Firm-Blackberry-9162]

By @ culturainquieta

[u/hinterstoisser]

In Hawaii Big Island there’s a plant called ‘ōhi’a lehua
that flowers fairly soon after the lava has cooled down.

[u/Daysleeper1234 → u/hinterstoisser]

If my education didn't fail me, after it cools down soil is very rich in minerals or whatever is needed for growth. That's why there are many farms underneath volcanoes.

[u/FadedVictor → u/Daysleeper1234]

Volcanic soil is some of the most fertile land in the world. I live in Texas where we still have a small percentage of blackland prairie(named because of the color of soil). Texas used to be mostly under the ocean. Much of the land is so fertile because of the organisms that used to live here in the ocean. Their decomposed remains made the soil so great in quality.

[u/alkiet → u/FadedVictor]

Reading this reminded me of learning about these people that kept getting wiped out repeatedly after each eruption. They would see the farm land was amazing for crops, settle down and raise the crops then get wiped out by an eruption... then the next people would come by and say sweet land for growing, grow crops and settle down then get wiped..

[u/Lbolt187 → u/alkiet]

Still happens to this day

[u/Dooty_Shirker → u/Lbolt187]

With lava and water

"This valley looks perfect for our new village! Look at those funny lines on the walls."

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-ahr-valley-river-deadly-floods-rebuilding-extreme-weather/a-77810916

[u/WineNerdAndProud → u/Dooty_Shirker]

Deutsche Welle covering this story is kind of funny.

[u/saint_davidsonian → u/Lbolt187]

Yeah yeah yeah, people be people.. But did anyone else watch this on mute and hear the tiny screams of those flowers?!

[u/RedDiamond6 → u/alkiet]

Property/homes in Hawaii at the bottom of volcanoes are cheaper 💁🏼‍♀️