Driest desert on Earth turns purple as world’s toughest flowers bloom
Driest desert on Earth turns purple as world’s toughest flowers bloom
A landscape of flowers in the Atacama Desert (Picture: Getty/EPA)
A seemingly lifeless desert has sprung into life and transformed into a purple oasis.
The sand dunes of Chile’s Atacama are the driest place on Earth but these tiny flowers cling on.
Their seeds survive through the blisteringly hot summers in a region that sees less than an inch of rain every year.
What makes this year’s bloom even…
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