Crystal blooms

One of the plants I'm lazily overwintering in the garage is creeping wire vine (Muehlenbeckia axillaris). I say "lazily" because I didn't bother taking it out of its pot or doing anything special. It's getting very little light, but since it's still holding some green leaves (although it's dropped a lot of them) I'm not too worried.

I want to get some part of this plant through the winter, as I don't feel like I gave it enough of a chance in the garden last year, keeping it in a single out-of-the-way hanging basket. The plant sits in the garage in an out-of-the-way place again, and only when I started looking at it closely this weekend did I notice something really cool about it...

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It has flowers on it!

Not just any flowers either, but thick succulent blooms, tiny bells of cut glass:

At first I thought there was a single bloom on this plant, but then realized that there were others:

The inspiration for some jellied candies for sure!

Some newly-opening buds:

As well as some faded blooms:

I suspect this guy has been blooming for a few weeks, completely unnoticed by me.

Are those black spearheads the seeds? They appear to be:

I'll save those and see if they germinate (I'll research germination conditions first). Since there are no pollinators and no wind in the garage, there hasn't been much chance for pollination.

Unless you count the times that I've bumped into the plant passing by. Or knocked it with my head now that I've hung it up.

The first photo I took has a bloom bud forming, and
I didn't notice it until reviewing the photos later!

An exciting discovery for me, as I've never seen such "juicy" blooms before!

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