perianths

Updated: May 17, 2025

Then, while you scarcely breathe, for fear the lovely vision will fade, another and another spreads its disc and waves its silvery tentacles, until the whole surface of that ugly jelly mass blooms like a garden in Paradise blooms not with motionless perianths, but with living animals, the most exquisite that God has allowed to develop in our sweet waters."

William Beebe - The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year