For some people, their plants never seem to bloom. Or maybe they only bloom every 400 years?
The MahaMeru flower is said to be a plant that only grows in the Himalayan mountains. But what luck that we are all able to witness this rare flowering miracle in time (although we are already wondering whether it only exists once or whether all the flowers in the Himalayas bloom at the same time).
In any case, this text is currently spreading not only every 400 years, but daily on WhatsApp:
“This is the MahaMeru flower. It only blooms once every 400 years and grows in the Himalayas. Our generation is lucky to see them. Pass it on so others can enjoy it too.”
This flower seems to have a very proud age when you know that it only blooms every 400 years. Now old plants and trees are not unusual; Some bushes live for several hundred years, a pine tree in California even lives for over 5,000 years , but it is still questionable whether this plant also exists in the Himalayas.
The picture
The origin of the picture is discreetly far away from the Himalayas, but comes from the US state of Arizona. Carnegiea gigantea ”, popularly known as the “Western cactus”,
grows there Named Cactus of the Year in 2017, the blooms of this cactus are even the official state flower of Arizona. Arizonans, at least, might be rather confused that their state flower suddenly grows in the Himalayas!
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The claim
Maybe the picture was just a mix-up, that can happen. But what about the claim that there is a MahaMeru flower in the Himalayas that only blooms every 400 years?
When we look for MahaMeru, we don't find it in biology books (yes, books!) or on biology websites, so it doesn't seem to be very well known.
Instead, we came across the “ Sri Yantra ,” a mystical diagram of the Hindu religion. When this symbol, consisting of nine interlocking triangles, is depicted in three dimensions, it is also called " Maha Meru" , which is also said to be the name of the mystical mountain in the spiritual center of the world.
That all sounds nice, but it has nothing to do with a flower at all, but rather with a “spiritual mountain” that doesn’t physically exist… and it probably doesn’t even bloom!
Other flowers
also circulating on the Internet with other photos of various flowers , but none of the images distributed with the text show a plant blossom in the Himalayas!
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Conclusion
The claim that a flower called “MahaMeru” in the Himalayas only blooms every 400 years is neither true, nor do any of the images distributed show this non-existent plant.
This sharepic, on the other hand, shows the absolute, undisputed, irrefutable truth!!1 ELEVEN!! We swear!!!!!!!
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