Out of last year's tragic fire at Toro Park in Monterey County, there may come some beauty.
Fire poppies have begun to bloom in the blaze's burn scar. They only come to life after a spot has experienced a fire, which hadn’t happened in the area for more than 100 years.
Monterey County's Facebook page described the flowers as “a beautiful sign of recovery.”
The county is asking that people do not go off the marked trails at Toro Park (which could be dangerous) or pick these flowers.
Not to be confused with the state flower, the California poppy, these flowers are also notable for their fireball orange color. The flowers typically last for a couple of days at most, though the seeds can lie dormant for years until smoke from a fire begins the germination process.
“The nodding buds appear to be top heavy on such spindly stems. Amazingly, when the flowers open, the stems straighten up and stand proud,” a poster on the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council website wrote. “I can attest to the fact that it is exciting to find Fire Poppies because we see them so rarely and their color is so vivid."
According to UC Berkeley, fire poppies, whose scientific name is Papaver californicum, is native to central western and southwestern California.
Toro Park reopened to the public last month after being closed since August.
Angelica Cabral is a journalist and podcaster for The Californian covering a wide variety of topics from movies filmed in Monterey County to how much political candidates have fundraised. Have a tip for an interesting story? Email her at acabral@gannett.com. You can also follow her on Twitter @avcabral97
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