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[JacenHanLovesLegos]

To the OP:  Did the magma appear or rise on any level higher than the maximum level of previously existing magma?  Also, did you have any exposed semi-molten rock or 'magma flow' or similar tiles nearby?

I believe it was below the highest magma. There's a magma pool in the third cavern. I've got strange caverns. Second and third are connected by a downward passage, third has water and a magma pool right next to each other. There are magma flow tiles in my staircase.

[Sphalerite]

There are magma flow tiles in my staircase.

That's probably what's doing it.  Magma spawns above magma flow tiles.

[MijRai]

I've had a bit of a magma while mining issue as well. I am close to the magma sea, and I am mining, when all of a sudden !!MAGMA!! is in the tunnel. It never goes above 1, and there are usually 8-11 tiles of it that spawn and just sit there. Do small pockets of magma form in the ground or something?

[TheeBaconman]

I keep reading this thread title and thinking it's a kind of plant that grows in magma.  Which would be awesome.

I keep interpreting it as a rose made out of magma (not approved for Valentine's Day use)

This is DF!!! Approve it for !!FUN!! and !!SCIENCE!! Burning dwarf couples/hordes is the very thing DF is about!!

[sir_laser]

Can you provide pics?

[LealNightrunner]

A relevant thread from an unrelated problem I had a while ago regarding lava flow tiles:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=68195

I think if you had a magma pool in the caverns, dug underneath that and channeled into the magma sea, the lava flow tiles in the magma sea may also spawn lava in the same manner as volcanos and others.