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This is the first year that I have a Cuphea ( Firecracker ) plant. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird's love it. My happy backyard.
Crossandra infundibuliformis, the "Firecracker flower", is a species of flowering plant native to southern India and Sri Lanka.
It is an erect, evergreen subshrub growing to 1 m with glossy, wavy-margined leaves and fan-shaped flowers, which may appear at any time throughout the year.The flowers are unusually shaped with 3 to 5 asymmetrical petals. The colours range from the common orange to salmon-orange or apricot, coral to red, yellow and even turquoise.
This plant requires a minimum temperature of 10 °C, and in temperate regions is cultivated as a houseplant.
The flowers have no perfume but stay fresh for several days on the bush.
The common name "firecracker flower" refers to the seed pods, which are found after the flower has dried up, and tend to "explode" when near high humidity or rainfall. The "explosion" releases the seeds onto the ground, thereby creating new seedlings.
Informations from Wikipedia
Photo from the archives
If a flower could be like a firecracker this would be it.
Volunteer Park Dahlia Garden, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Russellia equisetformis, from the central americas, is known by several common names but none of them rival this one for metaphorical soundness. These plants have a weeping habit and grow prolifically and are perfect for shrouding a bank. This one is from my Gold Coast hinterland garden.
Information & Credits are on the blog post.. rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2018/07/little-firecracker.html
Just playing editing tricks with one of our Mexican Birds of Paradise in honor of July 4 Independence Day.
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
Kunming | Yunnan Province | China
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While the Flame Skimmer and Cardinal Meadowhawk are still visible on this page, I thought the one shot I have of the reddest of all dragonflies, the Firecracker Meadowhawk should be posted so you can see the three shades. I came very close to blowing out the reds, but I had no idea what to do to prevent it and still have a true representation.
This was one of the very few not taken at the swamp, but just four miles away at a marsh that I usually go to for sparrows.
A single red Bee Balm bloom photographed at the Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa.
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This little firecracker is a male rufous hummingbird at Beatty's Guest Ranch, in Miller Canyon near Sierra Vista, Arizona. He was very busy aggressively defending his feeder, chasing off all other bird species. Unfortunately we were a few weeks late and many of the more unique hummingbird species had moved on. But I did get a glimpse of a Rivoli's Hummingbird. But mostly it was rufous, Anna's and black-chinned hummingbirds. Beatty's Guest Ranch is known for it's hummingbirds and has a formal viewing area. Unfortunately the viewing area was closed for the season, but the owner did have a couple of feeders up where we could watch and photograph.