View allAll Photos Tagged ChineseLantern
Time seems to be in such short supply at the moment I haven't been able to get out with my camera or keep up with all my friends on Flickr! Hope you're all keeping well :)
Found these lovely red Chinese Lanterns in one of the local gardens and so managed to get some of these lovely orange Chinese Lanterns for display to add some colour here.
The Chinese Lanterns have 4 stages, this is the final and the prettiest I think, last year I did not have any cause the previous year I uprooted all of them, well they found their way up again,
The link bellow shows how they look a Month later,
Taken 5 years earlier with my old Nikon.
www.flickr.com/photos/komotini49/8253517019/in/photolist-...
Autumn for us begins today, our trees still green and the Lilies in the pond still doing great.
Enjoy your colorful season!
Incredible show they are putting this year, from not having any last year to hundreds of Lanterns surrounding and climbing on the row of the Arborvitae trees.
Out of the hundreds they only left me one stem of my Chinese lanterns, next Spring I will guard them.
This has no Berry in them.
Abutilon plants are showy perennials with maple-like leaves and bell-shaped flowers. They are often called Chinese lanterns because of the papery blossoms. Another common name is flowering maple, because of the lobed leaves. Their delicate, lantern-like blooms open in spring and continue right through to autumn, profusely covering the graceful, slender branches in cheerful single and bi-coloured shades of red, orange and yellow, as well as white, pink and lilac. And when not in flower, the handsome, evergreen maple-like foliage provides the garden with year-round appeal. 5533
Spectacular-looking, Abutilon striatum (Red Vein Indian Mallow)
an evergreen shrub bearing a profusion of showy, orange, bell-shaped flowers, 2 in. across (5 cm), adorned with prominent crimson veining. Resembling Chinese lanterns, they dangle like porcelain earrings from extraordinarily long stalks.
Chinese Lantern (Abutilon x hybridum)
For my 100 Flowers Project - 2023
In a garden in the next street over from us.
Orange berries inside their seed pods of the wonderful Chinese lanterns (Physalis alkekengi) in our Cheltenham garden after rain.
It's magical how the covering of the pod disintegrates (a tiny bit remains on the left one) to create this magical filigree around the orange seed.
Chines Lantern/Trailing Abutilon (Callianthe megapotamica)
Rick (next door) has planted some Chinese Lanterns in his front garden. This one has some buds on it.
The Chinese Lantern is a wonderfully old fashioned variety of plant. I grew up having them in the garden, so on the rare occasions I see their brilliant red, yellow, orange, magenta or white flowers, I am always drawn to them and they remind me of my childhood.
The Chinese Lantern is usually found in regions covering southern Europe, northeast and southeast Asia, and it can be cultivated in more temperate climates. Alternatively named the Strawberry Tomato, or the Japanese Lantern, the Winter Cherry, or the Bladder Cherry, the Chinese Lantern is capable of holding out at temperatures below minus twenty degrees centigrade.
This fruit specimen of the Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi, Solanaceae) was shot in my "studio" set up on my kitchen counter for shallow depth of field to produce soft bokeh bubbles. The fruit was from a plant growing on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Although the small, orange berry inside the papery husk is edible, it is not esteemed as food compared to most of the American derived Physalis species including the tamatillo (Physalis philadelphica) and the many smaller ground cherries such as the Cape gooseberry, the aguaymanto (Spanish), and camapu (Portuguese). P. alkekengi is the only Physalis species native to Asia where it is naturally distributed from Central Asia to Japan. It has been introduced in the Americas where it is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and Canada.
NOTE: The geotag is for the location of where the fruit was collected.
AP203381m
These are plants that we planted dried to form dried lacy pods. Soon the plants will grow again, and the cycle of hope will continue.
Physalis alkekengi (bladder cherry , Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry groundcherry, or winter cherry ) is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape gooseberry). It is easily identifiable by the large, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resembles paper lanterns.
~ Wikipedia
You could see the Chinese lanterns we planted three years ago in the first comment.
We finally have frost. I love to watch the progression of these lanterns from green to orange to porous where the red seed appears.
In 2017 we planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry, groundcherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Now we have many new volunteer plants in addition to those we planted. Another fun photo to take advantage of this morning's frost, with camera, tripod splayed, and coffee. And reading no news!
I don't know if we should bring all of the Chinese or Japanese lanterns still clinging to their stems inside to dry. Or just let them fly across acres/hectares in the wind gusts today.
I guess I could research this, if they don't blow away before I go back into the wind. I exposed these as high as possible on this dark and windy day. That might make these look all the more vivid.
Also tried setting the aperture to f/29 to capture a slow exposure of hues, but that merely looked like a bad accident.
A bad accident might be a fitting statement for today. See earlier and later stages of this plant in first comment.
Another wet knees, tripod and caffeine morning photo.
We planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry, groundcherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Now we have new plants in addition to those we planted in 2017. A fun photo from this morning.
I took a sneaky shot over my back fence of my neighbour's Chinese lantern bush in various stages of flowering. Hope I have the ID correct on this one.
Chinese Lantern/Flowering Maple (Abutilon x hybridum)
For my 100 Flowers Project - 2021
The first time I have ever seen one of these flowers. It took me some time to confirm the ID. I spotted it as I wandered around to see if Bill's Daffs had opened this morning.
Chinese Lantern (Abutilon x hybridum)
For my 100 Flowers - 2022 Project.
Lovely to see in a garden in the next street over.
A developing Physalis 'lantern' hidden away close to the plant stem amongst the leaves. I'm looking forward to the red papery lanterns and ripe berries in the autumn. The leaves and developing fruit are highly poisonous, possibly fatal, if eaten but the ripe fruit are edible.
The name physalis means bladder, which refers to the shape of the calyx of the Chinese lantern plant. Also known by many other names including Inca berry, Poha berry, Cape gooseberry, Aztec berry, Golden berry, Pineapple ground cherry, Giant ground cherry, Peruvian ground cherry, Peruvian cherry, etc.
In my garden. La ceja, Colombia.
Abutilon pictum is a shrub growing to 5 metres. The yellow to orange-red bell shaped flowers have prominent dark red veining.
It is native to southern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The flowers attract pollinators, such as native bees and hummingbirds.
Wikipedia
The Chinese Lantern is a wonderfully old fashioned variety of plant. I grew up having them in the garden, so on the rare occasions I see their brilliant red, yellow, orange, magenta or white flowers, I am always drawn to them and they remind me of my childhood.
The Chinese Lantern is usually found in regions covering southern Europe, northeast and southeast Asia, and it can be cultivated in more temperate climates. Alternatively named the Strawberry Tomato, or the Japanese Lantern, the Winter Cherry, or the Bladder Cherry, the Chinese Lantern is capable of holding out at temperatures below minus twenty degrees centigrade.