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Themidaceae (formerly Liliaceae) - northern California and southern Oregon
Firecracker Flower
Shown: Clustered flower buds and fully opened flowers
"Dichelostemma ida-maia is a species of flowering plant known as firecracker flower. It is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it grows in mountain forests, woodlands, and coastal meadows. It is also widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for its showy crimson and cream flowers. This is a perennial which erects a tall, naked stem topped with an umbel of six to 20 flowers. Each flower is a cylindrical red tube two to three centimeters long. The tip of each flower lobe curls back to reveal a shiny white underside. The curls rim the mouth of the tubular flower in a corona, surrounding the small anthers and a stalked ovary. The flower hangs when it is in anthesis and holds itself erect as the fruit develops. One umbel may have some hanging flowers and some erect fruiting flowers at the same time." (Wikipedia)
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Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California
Common Milkweed [Asclepias syriaca]
Photographed October 16, 2014 at Grass Lake Preserve, located in Snail Lake Regional Park, Shoreview, Minnesota U.S.A.
www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/Parks%20and%20Rec...
Equipment used: Sony Alpha SLT-A58 and Sony SAL 75-300mm lens, with 20mm extension tube and focus rail mounted on Focal tripod.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_caerulea
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Alstroemeriaceae - South America
Peruvian Lily, Lily of the Incas
Shown: Flower buds and fully opened flowers
"Alstroemeria (syn. Alstremeria, pronounced /ˌælstrɨˈmɪəriə/),[1] commonly called the Peruvian Lily or Lily of the Incas, is a South American genus of about 50 species of flowering plants. Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil. Species of Alstroemeria from Chile are winter-growing plants while those of Brazil are summer-growing. All are long-lived perennials except A. (Taltalia) graminea, a diminutive annual from the Atacama Desert of Chile.
"Many hybrids and about 190 cultivars have been developed, with different markings and colors, ranging from white, golden yellow, orange, to apricot, pink, red, purple and lavender. The most popular and showy hybrids commonly grown today result from crosses between species from Chile (winter-growing) with species from Brazil (summer-growing). This strategy has overcome the problem of seasonal dormancy and resulted in plants that are evergreen or nearly so and flower for most of the year. This breeding work derives mainly from trials that began in the United States in the 1980s." (Wikipedia)
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Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California
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Polemoniaceae - Peru, Bolivia and Chile
Cantuta, Flor del Inca, Sacred-flower-of-the-Incas, Magic-flower
Shown: Detail of flower
For discussion of the mythology surrounding this flower:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantua_buxifolia
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Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California
Proteaceae - South Africa
Leucospermum 'Veldt Fire'
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