The production of flowers.
Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads.
A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading.
Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.