Now that all of us in the northern hemisphere find ourselves in winter, I'd like to introduce to all and sundry the Solstice Glower, a plant we can find here only in this cold season. The strange colour surrounding it in fact emanates from its roots and only lasts a few seconds. The light is alleged to be caused by an extremely rare species of glowworm which, although sexually mature, remains all its life in a larva stage and copulates only on the first day of winter in the roots of this plant. The insects' sexual activity stimulates the plant to grow clusters of already fertilized blossom opening into the cold winter air which is essential for the development of seed; all this, as already mentioned, in a matter of seconds. Afterwards, the Solstice Glower assumes a form identical to the surrounding flora and can not be discerned from the rest of the dead weeds.
