Mar 10, 2024
Frost flowers are one of the most delicate and intricate-looking natural ice formations. They are not actually any kind of vegetation, rather they are formed from an array of crystalline frost spikes that appear when warm water vapour emerges from thin surfaces of ice and hits cold air.
To form, frost flowers usually need calm, relatively windless conditions and a temperature difference of 15 degrees Celsius between the atmosphere and the ice surface