Silvery shine
The Hawaiian ahinahina or Haleakala silversword grows in only one place on earth. It sits on the earth in a globe of silvery, spiky leaves for up to 100 years—until it sends up a single tall rich, red blossom—and then its life cycle is complete.
In the late 1800s, naturalist Isabella Bird wrote of finding “not…one or two, but thousands of silverswords, their cold, frosted silver gleam making the hill-side look like winter or moonlight.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/descending-into-hawaiis-haleakala-crater-70943/#:~:text=Entering%20Haleakala%20Crater%2C%20the%20enormous,Not%20a%20breath%20of%20wind.
https://mauiinvasive.org/2014/08/19/the-haleakala-silversword-greatest-threat-is-now-climate-change/