Crown of Flames is a work for 12-part mixed choir a cappella, and sets the text of Brian Sonia-Wallace on the themes of survival, adaptation, and renewal. Pyrophytes (from the Greek pyro = fire + phyte = plant) are plants that resist fire or even require it to propagate. Passive pyrophites have thick bark or insulating tissue, while active pyrophites produce flammable oils to help spread fires and so eliminate competing trees. The most extreme pyrophytes, knows as pyrophiles (“flame lovers”), require the extreme heat of fire for their seeds to start growing, breaking soil when all the surrounding vegetation and dead leaves have been burnt and they can access the forest floor’s scarcest resource — sunlight. Unlike forest birds and animals, which can flee fires, pyrophytic plants have adapted not only to withstand them, but to use them to their advantage.
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