Will forwarding spring flowers bring good luck?

February 3rd in history is already crowded. 1057 years ago today, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chen Qiao mutiny to establish the Song Dynasty; 529 years ago today, the fleet of Portuguese navigator Diaz became the first European fleet to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. 99 years ago today, The New York Times began to issue in the United States. Today is not only the first day of work after the new year, but also the beginning of spring.

Speaking of beginning of spring, Tadpole Jun saw a picture driven crazy today.

Is this really a flower? I have seen many flowers. How come I've never seen anything like this? Besides, this thing looks more like an underwater creature.

In order to seek the truth, Tadpole Jun began to search online and found that this rumor was also widely circulated abroad.

▲? This photo was taken in Pinterest.com.

However, tracing back to the source, Tadpole Jun found that this is actually a marine creature called sea gill photographed by a photographer named Gordon J. Bowbrick in 20 13. The original picture is here.

▲? Source: Gordon B/photo.net

The original website clearly says Hai Yu, and interested friends can click to see more works by Gordon B.

▲ The picture is taken from photo.net.

According to Wikipedia, sea gills belong to the animal kingdom-coelenterata-Coral subfamily-Octopus subfamily -Pennatulacea, which is explained as follows:

Sea gill, also known as? Sea pen? It is an order of Coralline Algae of Coelenterata, which is goose feather-shaped, ranging from 10 cm to 2 m long, reddish purple or light red, and can emit phosphorescence. Habitat on the seabed, mainly in the soft mud bottom below the intertidal zone, and a few in sediments or pure sand bottom. When they inhabit, they plunge into the sand and expose one end, and make a living by filtering nutrients in the water. Hydra with tentacles can catch creatures in the water for food. Sea gill is a single fleshy colony coral, which consists of columnar primary axoloid and many feathery secondary individuals on the surface. The lower end of the primary salamander forms a stalk fixed in the sediment. At present, there are about 300 species found, such as barnyard grass, barnyard grass, sea cactus and so on. Some species of primary salamanders contain calcareous axial bones, and ordinary meat contains scattered bone needles.

Sea gills have appeared in the Precambrian Ediacara biota, and they still exist widely today.

If we go to Google and search Pennatulacea, we will find many similar photos.

▲ The picture is taken from Google.com.

Now the answer is finally revealed. Crazy pictures are a kind of marine animals, which can't be found on the edge of Himalayas. It's not called spring flowers, and it won't bloom once every 36 years.

Here, we have reason to believe that this rumor has flowed in from abroad. Maybe it was intentional, maybe it was misinformation. Anyway, if beginning of spring sees someone posting this picture again, the right thing to do is to throw him this article of Tadpole Jun..

Truth: Spring flowers circulating on the Internet started out as a marine animal called sea gills.

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Author: Tadpole Jun