Frost Flowers

Types of frost flowers include needle ice, frost pillars or frost columns, extruded from pores in the soil, and ice ribbons, rabbit frost or rabbit ice, extruded from linear fissures in plant stems. While the term ice flower is also used as synonym to ice ribbons, it may be used to describe the unrelated phenomenon of window frost as well.
Hair ice, frost beard, ice wool, or feather frost describe a hairy, sometimes silky variant of frost flowers, extruded from openings of histological rays in the wood, which also requires the presence of fungus metabolism.