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How Freezing Temperatures Create Frost Flowers

February 5, 2026

Discover the delicate beauty of frost flowers, a rare winter phenomenon where freezing temperatures cause ice to bloom into intricate, ribbon-like shapes on plant stems. Water inside plants expands as it freezes, cracking stems and squeezing moisture outward, where it instantly crystallizes in cold air. These fragile ice sculptures often vanish as quickly as they appear.