On Itzhak 3, the planet's Hebrew name for “laughter” goes to the name of its most iconic plant, for the great, tall plants stand green and beautiful in the lavender-sand deserts of this world and seem to laugh, putting forth massive flowers, sometimes as broad as a meter across (3.375 feet), and succulent, sweet fruits in its hottest, most barren seasons.

The secret, however, is what is not easily seen between fruit and flower – the big fruit detaches when ripe from the inside of the flower, and the rest of the flower gently slides to the sand and goes under it, like a peanut flower does to make peanuts.

Instead, the Itzhak flowers become great reservoirs of the rains that come in the early winter, and then freeze in the cold dry half – they become great colorful ice packs that insulate the roots of the plant from the most ferocious cold, and then slowly give back the stored water during the long dry spring and dry hot summer.

The Itzhakim, forever moving with the seasons across the deserts of their worlds, know that an oasis is everywhere the great, tall plants are – in the summer, the great fruits provide water, and in the late dry spring through when the fruits arrive, the flowers still have abundant water and can be harvested carefully as a resource, still retaining their shape and some of their color as they come succulent from the sands.

In the winter, sometimes a fierce storm will blow the sand from a flower as it sits shining like a great pastel snowflake three feet across, promising hope and life into the future for its parent plant and the peoples who roam the great expanse of Itzhak 3.

Four different pastel variations of fractals made in Apophysis 2.09, rendered on white and then on lavender to bring out their crystalline and yet floral structure,, color coded for the seasons above and below the sands of their worlds!