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• Tree peony, Moutan peony
• Peonía de árbol
• 모란 (Moran)
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Paeoniaceae
Genus: Paeonia
Species: Paeonia suffruticosa
The tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa, Korean: 모란, Moran) is a magnificent woody shrub celebrated for its lush, multi-petaled blossoms and elegant structure. Unlike the herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora, 작약, Jakyak), which dies back each winter, the tree peony grows on sturdy woody stems and produces even larger, more dramatic flowers. From April to May, it bursts into bloom with shades ranging from pure white to deep reddish-purple, filling gardens with color and subtle fragrance. By late summer, its fruit splits open to reveal small, round black seeds.
In South Korea, the tree peony is more than just a beautiful flower—it carries deep cultural symbolism. For centuries it has represented wealth, honor, prosperity, and refined beauty, appearing in traditional art, poetry, and palace decorations. A notable example is its frequent appearance in the folk paintings known as minwha (민화), where it is used as an auspicious ornamental motif. Though admired throughout the country, tree peonies remain a cherished sight in spring, when their short but spectacular blooming season draws admirers from near and far.
Ojukheon Museum (오죽헌 박물관), Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea
A rainy Christmas day...
'Rose mallow'
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Rosids
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Subfamily:Malvoideae
Tribe:Hibisceae
Genus:Hibiscus
Ephesians 2:10
New International Version
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Anemone coronaria, Spanish marigold, or windflower, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Mediterranean region.
Description
Anemone coronaria is a herbaceous perennial tuberous plant growing to 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) tall, rarely to 60 cm (24 in), spreading to 15–23 cm (5.9–9.1 in), with a basal rosette of a few leaves, the leaves with three leaflets, each leaflet deeply lobed. The flowers which bloom from April to June are borne singly on a tall stem with a whorl of small leaves just below the flower; the flower is 3–8 cm in diameter, with 5–8 red (but may be white or blue) showy petal-like tepals and a black centre. The pollen is dry, has an unsculpted exine, is less than 40 nm in diameter, and is usually deposited within 1.5 m of its source. This central mound consists of tightly packed pistils in the centre, with a crown-like ring of stamens surrounding this, giving the species its specific epithet coronaria. The flowers produce 200–300 seeds. The plants form hard black tubers as storage organs.
Aside from its flowers resembling poppies, the red single wild form flowers resemble the flowers of the red single wild form of Ranunculus asiaticus.
Taxonomy
Within the genus Anemone, A. coronaria is placed within subgenus Anemone, section Anemone, subsection Anemone and is one of five species making up series Anemone, together with A. hortensis L., A. palmata L., A. pavonina Lam. and A. somaliensis Hepper. Within the series A. coronaria is sister to A. somaliensis. This series is a clade of Mediterranean tuberous anemones. It is also the type species for the subgenus.
Etymology
Anemone coronaria means crown anemone, referring to the central crown of the flower, evoking regal associations. The Arabic name is shaqa'iq An-Nu'man translated literally as the wounds, or "pieces", of Nu'man. One possible source of the name traces back to the Sumerian god of food and vegetation, Tammuz, whose Phoenician epithet was "Nea'man". Tammuz is generally considered to have been drawn into the Greek pantheon as Adonis, who died of his wounds while hunting wild boar. The deity is transformed into a flower, stained by the blood of Adonis. Tammuz's Phoenician epithet "Nea'man" is believed to be both the source of "an-Nu'man" in Arabic which came through Syriac, and of "anemone" which came through Greek. Another possible source of the name is An-Nu'man III Bin Al-Munthir, the last Lakhmid king of Al-Hirah (582-c.609 AD) and a Christian Arab. An-Nu'man is known to have protected the flowers during his reign. According to myth, the flower thrived on An-Nu'man's grave, paralleling the death and rebirth of Adonis.
In Hebrew, the anemone is kalanit metzuya. "Kalanit" comes from the Hebrew word "kala כלה" which means "bride", "metzuya" means "common." The kalanit earned its name because of its beauty and majesty, evoking a bride on her wedding day. In 2013 Anemone coronaria was elected as the national flower of the State of Israel, in a poll arranged by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (החברה להגנת הטבע) and Ynet. Each year in Israel there is a month-long festival to celebrate the blooming of the red anemones. During the British Mandate for Palestine, British paratroopers were nicknamed "kalaniyot" for their red berets.[citation needed]
Distribution and habitat
Mediterranean littoral, from Greece, Albania, southern Turkey and Syria to the Sinai Peninsula with sporadic extension east to Iran and west along the Mediterranean shores of Italy, southern France and North Africa.
Ecology
In the wild, A. coronaria is winter flowering and cross pollinated by bees, flies and beetles, which can carry pollen over long distances.
Cultivation
Anemone coronaria was introduced into England prior to 1596, being described in Thomas Johnson's edition of John Gerard's Herball, first published in 1597 and was popular during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, breeders in France and Italy had already considerably improved the range of colours available.
Anemone coronaria is widely grown for its decorative flowers, and has a hardiness of USDA zones 7–10, preferring full sun to part shade. Although perennial in its native climate, A. coronaria is usually grown as an annual in cooler climates, from tubers. Planting is usually in the autumn if kept in pots in a greenhouse through the winter or in the ground in spring once the risk of frost has passed.
Cultivars
Modern cultivars have very large flowers, with diameters of 8–10 cm and a wide range of bright and pastel colours, in addition to two toned varieties. The centre is usually black, but may be pale green in white varieties. Stems may be as tall as 40–50 cm, and each plant may produce 13–15 blooms.
Numerous cultivars have been selected and named, the most popular including the De Caen (single) and St Brigid (semi-double and double) groups of cultivars. The De Caen group are hybrids cultivated in the districts of Caen and Bayeux in France in the 18th century, and include 'Bicolor' (red with white), 'Blue Poppy' (blue), 'Mr Fokker' (purple), 'Sylphide' (deep pink) and 'The Bride' (white). Referred to as poppy anemones because they closely resemble the true poppy (Papaveroideae). St. Brigid cultivars originated in Ireland, and named after that county's saint, they include 'Lord Lieutenant' (purple blue) and 'The Governor' (red). In addition to these large groups, there are two minor groups, Rissoana which is very rustic and early blooming (November) and Grassensis with large double flowers that bloom in the spring.
Horse Chestnut Flower / Aesculus Hippocastanum
Genesis 2:9
New International Version
9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Hippeastrum sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:Amaryllidoideae
Tribe:Hippeastreae
Subtribe:Hippeastrinae
Genus:Hippeastrum
Middle Prong Little River, Great Smoky Mountain National Park - Sevier County, Tennessee.
Dogwood trees blooming along the rushing Middle Prong Little River on a spring afternoon.
©2018 Nature's Spectrum, For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.
Viola × wittrockiana, commonly known as the garden pansy, is a popular hybrid flower cultivated for its colorful and expressive blooms. It is the result of a complex hybridization between several species of the Viola genus, particularly Viola tricolor, Viola lutea, and Viola altaica. Widely grown as an ornamental plant, the pansy thrives in cool climates and is loved for its variety of colors and delicate patterns.
The name "Viola" comes from Latin, meaning "violet." The hybrid name "× wittrockiana" honors Veit Brecher Wittrock, a 19th-century Swedish botanist who specialized in the Viola genus. The “×” symbol indicates its hybrid origin.
The common English name "pansy" comes from the French word pensée, meaning "thought" or "remembrance." Likewise, in Spanish, the flower is called pensamiento, which also means "thought." These names reflect the flower’s symbolic association with reflection, memory, and gentle emotion.
• 팬지
• Garden pansy
• Pensamiento
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Malpighiales
Family:Violaceae
Genus:Viola
Species:V. × wittrockiana
In South Korea, it’s common to see vibrant pansies decorating public spaces like plazas, sidewalks, and gardens. These particular pansies were photographed in the charming Songwol-dong Fairy Tale Village, located in Jung-gu, Incheon, a place filled with color, imagination, and beautiful floral displays.
Single flower macro shot
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Monocots
(unranked):Commelinids
Order:Poales
Family:Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:Bromelioideae
Genus:Billbergia
Spring bloom (Oct.2016)
Centaurea Cyanus
Jeremiah 10:9-10
New King James Version
9 Silver is beaten into plates;
It is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of the craftsman
And of the hands of the metalsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skillful men.
10 But the Lord is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth will tremble,
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.
It was hard not to notice the variety and colours of the wild flowers that were growing around Grazalema, however this is one that stood out not by colour but the shape of the flower. We only found the one plant with a small number of flowers growing against a large rock behind a derelict farm building.
Initially we had no idea what kind plant but a bit of digging around on google we soon found out the true identity, it is also known as the Andalusian Pipe Vine however I rather liked the other common name, though it reminded me more of the carnivorous pitcher plants on first sight.
This is a type of poisonous vine which is a member of the birthwort family found across the Iberian peninsular and North Africa, the ant was a bonus ;-)
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In the temperate forests of this part of Asia, it is common to see lobed-leaf trees that sprout in spring with an orange or reddish hue, later turning green as the season progresses. Some specimens have deeply edged leaves with a firm texture, adapted to cold climates, while others have more delicate, palmate shapes. The most common species in these latitudes (Acer pseudosieboldianum), though it is not unusual to also find its better-known relative (Acer palmatum), native to a neighboring region. Both share a similar aesthetic, but with subtle nuances in shape and the timing of their color changes, making each encounter a distinct and valuable observation.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Sapindales
Family:Sapindaceae
Genus:Acer
Incheon Chinatown, Jung-gu, Incheon, South Korea
We first found these little orchids on the second to last day of the trip, so I planned to come back the following morning to get a few more shots as I didn't have my macro lenses with me.
To begin with we could only see the one orchid and as we were looking at it a shepherd and his herd of sheep appeared. We joked at the time that when we came back the sheep would have eaten it, to be honest we thought it would be fine as other orchids had been ignored.
So when I returned the following morning, guess what, could not locate the orchid and eventually I found the flower on the ground having been nibbled off. Fortunately, after a brief search I found two more orchids not far away that had literally come into flower overnight, it was then I could see many more buds so luckily I was able to get a few shots before the sheep return.
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Cherry blossoms, known as sakura, symbolize the fleeting nature of life. They are stunning in full bloom but only last a few weeks before falling and withering away. This duality represents both life and death, beauty and violence. As spring brings new life, the blooming sakura exudes vitality, yet their short lifespan reminds us of life's transience.
Sakura is a prominent symbol in Japanese culture, appearing in art, film, poetry, and literature. Historically, they represented the brief, colorful lives of samurai, who lived by a strict moral code called bushido. Fallen cherry blossoms symbolized the end of a samurai's life.
During World War II, kamikaze pilots adorned their planes with sakura, symbolizing a beautiful, honorable death for the emperor. In Japanese folk religions, cherry blossom trees were associated with agricultural fertility, believed to be the dwelling places of deities who transformed into rice paddy gods.
The Hanami ritual celebrates the transient beauty of cherry blossoms. Known as "flower viewing," it involves gazing at the flowers, a practice that dates back to ancient times when farmers prayed and made offerings under the trees for a bountiful harvest. Today, Hanami is a beloved annual event where families and friends gather for picnics and parties under the cherry blossoms, enjoying food, drinks, and each other's company.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Prunus
Subgenus:Prunus subg. Cerasus
Fushimi Inari Taisha, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan
• Carrion plant / starfish flower / starfish cactus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Apocynaceae
Subfamily:Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:Stapeliae
Genus:Stapelia
Species:S. grandiflora
Native to South Africa, including the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, and Free State
From my collection
Explored: March 22, 2020
Brasília, DF, Brazil.
The genus Calliandra contains about 140 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas.
The flowers are produced in cylindrical or globose inflorescences and have numerous long slender stamens.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliandra
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Calliandra Benth.
Species: C. dysantha Benth.
Binomial name: Calliandra dysantha
Phyllodium longipes is a perennial shrub Angiosperms (Flowering Seed Plants) (Dicotyledon) growing in Southern China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand. It is also known as Fish Scales and is a woody leguminous shrub, typically 1 - 2 m in overall height. Leaves densely covered by velvety brown hairs. Terminal leaves lanceolate to oblong, 13-20 cm length, often longer than lateral leaves, prominently veined. Branchlets densely brown-pubescent. 23487
Desert Agave photographed in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area located in Clark County in the City of Las Vegas Nevada U.S.A.
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I planted some years ago and for the first time I see one of the gorgeous flowers in full bloom.
The plants known as epiphyllum hybrids, epiphyllums, epicacti or just epis, widely grown for their flowers, are artificial hybrids of species within the group of cacti placed in the Tribe Hylocereeae, particularly species of Disocactus, Pseudorhipsalis and Selenicereus. In spite of the common name, Epiphyllum species are less often involved. The parent species from which epiphyllums were bred are different in appearance and habit from most cacti. They are found in the tropical forests of Central America where they grow as climbers or on trees as epiphytes. They have leafless (or apparently leafless) flattened stems which act as the plant's photosynthetic organs. Relatively large flowers are borne on the sides of the stems; in many species they open at night.
Hybrids between Disocactus and Epiphyllum have been called ×Disophyllum Innes. This name is sometimes incorrectly used for the group as a whole.
The Epiphyllum Society of America (the International Registration Authority for hybrids of the Tribe Hylocereeae) maintains a list of epiphyllum hybrids (and Hylocereeae species) which contained over 7,000 names in 1996.
Los Angeles. California.
Very variable species with the largest flowers in the genus ranging from 100-400 mm in diameter. Clump-forming succulent with fat, green, erect, deeply ribbed stems, up to 200 mm tall and 30 mm thick.
The flowers are large, star-shaped 5-petalled, pale yellow in color, with transverse crimson lines variable in color and covered with purplish or crimson hairs.
It is the most widely north-south distributed species and occurs in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
• Zulu giant / giant carrion plant / giant toad plant
• Flor carroña gigante
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Apocynaceae
Subfamily:Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:Stapeliae
Genus:Stapelia
Species:S. gigantea
From my collection
Luke 3:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
In the temperate forests of this part of Asia, it is common to see lobed-leaf trees that sprout in spring with an orange or reddish hue, later turning green as the season progresses. Some specimens have deeply edged leaves with a firm texture, adapted to cold climates, while others have more delicate, palmate shapes. The most common species in these latitudes (Acer pseudosieboldianum), though it is not unusual to also find its better-known relative (Acer palmatum), native to a neighboring region. Both share a similar aesthetic, but with subtle nuances in shape and the timing of their color changes, making each encounter a distinct and valuable observation.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Sapindales
Family:Sapindaceae
Genus:Acer
Species: Acer palmatum
Dongdaemun, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
An orchid that seems to favour the damp water meadow, a fair number growing that the local livestock thankfully ignored which made photographing quite easy as they stood proud of the neatly clipped grasses. Quite small, this one was only about 4 inches tall.
This was an unintentional focus stack in that I took two shots with the focal point on each flower head, it was only when I reviewed the photos that I decided to merge them into a single shot using Zerene Stacker.
Canon EOS 5DsR
Canon EF 180mm f3.5
ISO200
f6.3
1/30 sec
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One from this morning. Yesterday went for a little explore close to where I had seen the Mirror Orchids and since then many more orchids have appeared. This species I had seen before in just one place but now there are a number of patches of mixed orchid species including Yellow Bee Orchids. A clear sky and a heavy dew helped to get some nice images.
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Notocactus concinnus
Spring growing (21.sept.2016)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Core eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Cactaceae
Subfamily:Cactoideae
Tribe:Notocacteae
Genus:Parodia
Red Trillium (Trillium erectum) - Picnic / Beach area, Rangeley State Park, Rangeley, Maine
Plantae Tracheophytes Angiosperms Monocots Liliales Melanthiaceae Trillium erectum "Trillium erectum" erectum erectum acuminatum atropurpureum atropurpureum atropurpureum blandum brevipedicellatum cahnae cahnae declinatum flavum giganteum horizontale luteum nigrescens pallidandrum parviflorum parvum rubrostriatum sessiloides sulcatum flavum foetidum nutans obovatum pendulum purpureum rhomboideum rhomboideum atropurpureum spatulatum album albiflorum rhomboideum album
Yet another look at ...
Schlumbergera cultivars
Christmas cactus / Thanksgiving cactus / Crab cactus / Holiday cactus
Colorado Springs, Colorado
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumbergera
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Cactaceae
Subfamily:Cactoideae
Tribe:Rhipsalideae
Genus:Schlumbergera
White Meadowsweet on Prout's Island on Lake Sesekinika in Grenfell Township in Northeastern Ontario Canada
A bee pays a visit to a
Bearded Iris
Colorado Springs, CO
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Iridaceae
Genus:Iris
Species:I. croatica
Nymphaeaceae /ˌnɪmfiːˈeɪsiː/ is a family of flowering plants.
Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains eight large-flowered genera with about 70 species. The genus Nymphaea contains about 35 species in the Northern Hemisphere. The genus Victoria contains two species of giant water lilies endemic to South America. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria.
Water lilies are a well studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated. Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
Horticulturally water lilies have been hybridized for temperate gardens since the nineteenth century, and the hybrids are divided into three groups: hardy, night-blooming tropical, and day-blooming tropical water lilies. Hardy water lilies are hybrids of Nymphaea species from the subgenus Castalia; night-blooming tropical water lilies are developed from the subgenus Lotos; and the day-blooming tropical plants arise from hybridization of plants of the subgenus Brachyceras.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaeaceae and www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=705