While dodging bad weather here last night there was some hail mixed with 
rain, I went outside to take a look and saw some of these flower-like 
hailstones.
Tried to recreate it using a media-filled blob made up of somewhat random 
spheres. Hail is probably one of the easiest things to make directly in POV!
Possibly a broken open ball of a conglomeration of smaller hailstones. The 
inner part was transparent, outer part white, size about one and one-half 
inch across (less than 4 centimeters) and half inch thick. It melted fast, 
but I was lucky enough to get a photo of it. Did a quick google image search 
and didn't find anything like this. Found pictures of flattened ones with 
clear edges and opaque centers. I'm thinking this must be a split ball of 
ice but my first reaction was that it might have formed this way when I was 
picking it up. Got my doubts after rethinking it.
Please take the appearance as it is, not sure I could improve on it.

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