After the summer rain in July, the forests in Japan are even greener and fresher. As soon as the rain stopped, clusters of transparent flowers suddenly appeared under the dense trees on the mountainside. If you’re not observant, you won’t recognize those flower clusters!
Diep Ha Son or glass bone flower is a rare and unique plant in the natural world.
People call it bone flower, but the name Diep Ha Son is still the most familiar. Being able to see the Ha Son flower with your own eyes once in your life is a lucky thing that many people dream of.
Although small and beautiful, this flower has the ability to transform and cause admiration.
No need to be the queen of flowers, Diep Ha Son still has its own way to be classified as a strange flower. People enjoy calling this beautiful plant the “magician” in the forest, because just a few drops of water are enough to make the phyllophyte almost invisible in space. Wherever the water spreads, the flower petals become transparent, both fragile and mysteriously beautiful.
Diphylleia Grayi has the scientific name Diphylleia Grayi, belongs to the Hoang Moc family, and was first discovered in Japan in 1803. The Japanese call them Sankayou flowers. Diep Ha Son prefers cool places, high humidity and little sunlight. They are perennial plants, can grow up to about half a meter tall with a canopy about 30 – 40 cm wide.
This rare flower surprises many people because of its strange transformation. Its buds are light purple in color, very similar to blueberries. Then when it flowers, it changes to white, when exposed to water it becomes transparent, and when it dries it turns back to pure white. It is no exaggeration to say Diep Ha Son is a super graceful magician of nature.
This is not a bunch of grapes, this is the bud of the Ha Son flower!
The “transformation” process of flower petals happens very quickly, in just a split second when rainwater falls.
Phyllanthus flower petals are transparent when wet because of the loose cell structure, not because the pigment is “washed away” as many people mistakenly think. When it rains, water fills the cells of the petals, making them as transparent as glass. Scientists are still unclear whether this strange feature is an advantage or a disadvantage for the Ha Son flower. For now, it is an attractive detail that makes many people wish to see it with their own eyes.
Because of its characteristic of only living in cool and humid climates, phyllophyta only grows in three places on the planet: the Appalachian mountains (eastern United States), Hokkaido (Japan) and Yunnan (Central China). National). Among those three places, Diep Ha Son’s main growing area is Hokkaido. This is Japan’s second largest island, the average summer temperature ranges from 17 – 22 degrees Celsius, which is very suitable for this magical flower to live.
In addition to its ability to adapt and grow in areas with little light and high humidity, this white flower only blooms in July every year. If you don’t have sharp eyes, you won’t be able to spot the clusters of phyllophytes shyly hiding under trees drenched in summer rain.
Diep Ha Son is often picked to decorate homes and make aesthetically pleasing decor items. In love, Diep Ha Son is likened to first love because it is both pure and innocent, fragile and fragile.
In addition, Ha Son phyllanthus is also used in traditional medicine as a valuable medicinal plant that helps enhance blood circulation and effectively detoxify. People in high mountain areas often use Ha Son leaves as medicine to treat snake bites.
The late Korean singer Kim Jong-hyun, a member of the band SHINee, also performed a song called Sanhayeob (산하엽) – which is the name of this flower in Korean.
