The Yimi flower grows for 7 years, just for a moment of blossoming beauty

Some people may have heard of the Yimi flower, while others may have never heard the name. Does this flower with such a pretty name really exist? And how many people have actually seen it?

The Yimi flower is a real flower, growing in the desert regions of Africa. Almost no one notices it, because when they see it, they only take it for an ordinary grass. The Yimi flower takes about 7 years to bloom. Perhaps on some early morning, after using up the nutrients stored throughout its life to produce flowers for one or two days, it then withers and dies.

When the Yimi flower blooms, it has four petals, each a color of its own: red, white, yellow and blue. In the desert regions of Africa, with the scorching sun blazing overhead, plants that grow there must have a powerful root system to survive. But the Yimi flower has only one root, winding downward, deep into the ground. So it needs five years to complete the penetration of its root and stem, slowly accumulating nutrients.

In the spring of the sixth year, it finally puts out a small four-petaled flower on the ground, yet it blooms for only two days before exhausting its nutrients and withering away along with the parent plant.

The growth of the Yimi flower bears a striking resemblance to the life course of the cicada. Among the countless families of nature, this extremely tiny member nevertheless proclaims to the world in its unique way of life: one life, one beauty.