Most Beautiful Flowers And Plants Pictures
Beautiful Succulent Plant Pictures: Stapelia Flower Of South Africa
Stapelia flower trivia: Stapelia plants are spineless, stem succulent plants, mainly from South Africa. Stapelia flowers can grow up to 16 inches. Most Stapelia flowers are hairy and produce a pungent smell of rotten meat, with the exception being the sweet smelling Stapelia flavopurpurea. The foul rotten meat stink even confuses some flies that lay eggs ...
Beautiful Hybrid Cattleya Orchid Flower Pictures
Cattleya orchid flower trivia: Cattleya orchid flowers are famous for their large, showy flowers, and are very popular for hybridization. Cattleya orchids represent the quintessential image of the classic orchid known to the public. Cattleya flower hybrids grow from 5 cm to 15 cm or more. Cattleya orchids grow in all colors except true blue and black. Beautiful ...
Most Beautiful Cactus Flowers: Blooming Succulent Plants Pictures
Succulent plant and cactus trivia: Succulent plants are also named: succulents or fat plants. Succulents are water-retaining plants that evolved to withstand the harsh climate or soil conditions. The leaves, stems, and roots of succulents act as water storage creating the fat appearance. Almost all cacti are succulent plants, but not all succulents are cacti. ...
Beautiful Lady Slipper Orchid Flowers – Paphiopedilum Pictures
Lady's slipper flower trivia: The lady's slipper in the USA is also called the moccasin flower. Lady's slipper orchids a.k.a. slipper orchids' signature slipper-shaped pouches are actually modified labellums which trap insects so they have to climb up past the staminode to collect or deposit pollinia, thus fertilizing the flower. Paphiopedilum flower trivia: The Paphiopedilums are ...
Beautiful Anthurium Flowers – Flamingo Lily Pictures
Anthurium flower trivia: Anthurium flowers are also known as: Flamingo Flower, Flamingo Lily or Boy Flowers. Countless Anthurium species have not been discovered as new ones are still being classified every year. Most Anthurium species can be found in Panama, Colombia, Brazil, the Guiana Shield and Ecuador. Some Anthurium flower species are in Asian rain forests ...
Most Beautiful Tropical Hybrid Cymbidium Orchid Flower Pictures
Cymbidium orchid flower trivia: Some types of Cymbidium orchid flowers are a delicacy in Bhutan, used in recipes of spicy curry or stew. Cymbidium orchid flowers are very popular worldwide due to their exquisite beauty. Cymbidiums have been cultivated for 1000's of years, mostly in China. Cymbidiums are unique in their ability to be able to survive ...
Beautiful Orange, Purple, Blue Hybrid Flower Pictures: Bearded Iris
Bearded iris flower trivia: Spite great efforts it has not been possible to create a hybrid bearded iris in red color. So as of now the colors of bearded iris vary between shades of orange, yellow, blue and purple only. Beautiful macro flower photography of blue hybrid Bearded Iris Raindrops on beautiful blue hybrid Bearded Iris Beautiful ...
Most Beautiful Lonicera – Honeysuckle Flower Pictures
Lonicera - Honeysuckle flower trivia: Lonicera was named after Adam Lonicer, a Renaissance botanist. Honeysuckle Weeks is a famous actress from England who was born when honeysuckle flowers bloomed, hence her beautiful first name. Most commonly known honeysuckle flowers are: Lonicera periclymenum - European Honeysuckle or Woodbine Lonicera japonica - Japanese Honeysuckle, White Honeysuckle, or Chinese Honeysuckle Lonicera ...
Beautiful Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Abutilon Flower Pictures
Abutilon flower trivia: Common names of Abutilon are: Chinese Bell Flower, Chinese Lantern, Mallow, Indian Mallow, and Flowering Maple. Even though some Abutilon has maple-like leaves it is not related to the maples. Abutilons are quite resilient garden flowers plants, they don't only thrive in subtropical areas but also can withstands moderate frost down to about ...
Most Beautiful Gerbera And Daisy Flower Pictures
Gerbera flower trivia: Gerbera is part of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Gerbera flower is named after German naturalist Traugott Gerber. Gerbera plants have a large Capitulum (flower head) that looks like a single flower but it contains hundreds of individual flowers. Gerbera is a very popular commercial flower. It is the 5th best selling cut flower in ...
Beautiful Asclepias – Milkweed Flower And Seed Pod Pictures
Milkweed flower trivia: Asclepias (milkweeds) are made up of over 140 known species. The name Asclepias comes from Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. Milkweed is named after its milky juice. Milkweeds are significant nectar source for bees and several other nectar collecting bugs. Milkweeds are also a larval food source for monarch butterflies, their ...
Beautiful Pictures Of Wild Mushrooms
Mushroom Trivia: Mushrooms have been used for coloring wool and other natural fibers. Mushrooms contain organic compounds which produce strong and vivid colors. All of the colors of the spectrum can be created with mushroom dyes. Before the discovery of artificial dyes mushrooms were main ingredients of numerous textile dyes. Some mushrooms (tinder fungi) can ...
Most Beautiful Dogwood – Cornus Flower Pictures
Dogwood (Cornus) flower trivia: The name dogwood comes from dagwood, as in "dags" in daggers, skewers. The 30-50 species of dogwood are mostly woody shrubs and trees. Dogwood was is also excellent for making arrows, tool handles, and any small items which needs a very solid and strong wood. Christian legend says that the crucifix of Jesus ...
Most Beautiful Purple Flowers Pictures
Purple color trivia: Purple was the favorite color of the hippies in the late 1960s. Psychedelic black light paintings were created by combining fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to make fluorescent purple. This shade of purple was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix therefore is called psychedelic purple. Artistic macro photo of swirling ...
Most Beautiful Fuzzy Poppy Flower Buds Pictures
Red poppy flower trivia: Throughout ages in different cultures red poppy flowers have been the symbols of sleep and death. Sleep was associated with poppies because of their opium content, death because of their (commonly) blood-like red color. Closed green Oriental poppy flower buds Field of beautiful fuzzy green poppy flower buds Bright and sunny field of just ...
Beautiful Oriental Hybrid Flower Pictures: Lilium – Stargazer Lily
Lilium - Stargazer lily flower trivia: Stargazer Lilies are toxic to both humans and cats when swallowed. The symptoms upon ingestion are: nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. In certain cases anaphylaxis (acute multi-system hypersensitivity reaction) may occur. The Stargazer lily was engineered in 1978 by lily breeder Leslie Woodriff in California. Stargazer lily is an Oriental hybrid lily. ...
Beautiful Chrysanths: Pictures Of Chrysanthemums – Mums Flowers
Chrysanthemum flower trivia: Chrysanthemums ( chrysanths, mums) are perennial flowering plants native to Asia and Northeastern Europe. Yellow or white chrysanthemum flowers are boiled to make "chrysanthemum tea", a sweet drink in some parts of Asia. One of the many therapeutic benefits of chrysanthemum tea is to aid in recovery from influenza. In Korea, a rice ...
World’s Most Beautiful Weed? Lantana Flower Pictures
Lantana flower trivia: Lantana flower is also called Baho-baho, Lantana camara, shrub verbenas or lantanas. Due to the flower having yellow and pink colors next to each other it received some funny nicknames: "ham 'n eggs" and "bacon 'n eggs". Besides lantana flower being a beautiful weed it has some great tricks to ensure it's survival and ...
Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis: National Floral Emblem – Country Flower Of Malaysia
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis flower trivia: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is called Bunga Raya in Malay and also known as Chinese hibiscus, China rose and shoe flower. The word bunga in Malay means "flower" and raya means "big". Therefore the hibiscus is the "big flower" in Malay. The red of the hibiscus flower petals represent courage, life, and rapid growth ...
Beautiful Momiji: Japanese Maple Tree Leaf And Autumn Foliage Pictures
Japanese maple trivia: Japanese maple is also referred to as Acer palmatum, Japanese Maple or Smooth Japanese Maple. Japanese maple trees consist of 100's of named cultivars with a wide variety of forms, colors, leaf types, leaf sizes, and ideal growing conditions. Heights of fully grown Japanese maple can range from 0.5m to 25m, depending on ...
Beautiful Maple Leaf Pictures: National Symbol Of Canada
Maple tree trivia: Maple trees represent a major source of pollen in early spring preceding many other flowering plants therefore maples are important to the survival of honeybees. Beautiful red Canadian maple leaf with soft creamy bokeh: blurred background Creative image of rain drops on colorful maple leaf Shadows on maple leaves captured in autumn forest Beautiful red Canadian ...
Red Lotus: National Floral Emblem – Country Flower Of Vietnam
Red lotus flower trivia: Red lotus (Nelumbo Nucifera) is also referred to as Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or Lotus. It is common to mistake water-lily for lotus. The best way to identify lotus is by its unique circular seed pod which looks like spouts of a watering can. Another difference is that water-lilies come ...
Plumeria Frangipani Pictures: National Floral Emblem – Country Flower Of Laos
Plumeria flower trivia: According to folk beliefs plumeria flowers (Frangipani) in Southeastern Asia provide shelter to ghosts and demons. The scent of the plumeria represents vampires in Malay folklore, the pontianak. In Bangladeshi culture most white flowers, and particularly plumeria are connected to funerals and dying. In the Philippines plumeria flowers are similarly associated with ghosts ...
Beautiful Artificial Hybrid Orchid Flowers: Phalaenopsis – Moth Orchids
Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid flower Trivia: Phalaenopsis is one of the most popular orchids in the flower trade because of the genetic engineering of many artificial hybrids. The generic name: Phalaenopsis means "Phalaen[a]-like" ... Phalaena is the name of a group of large moths. Several species of Phalaenopsis do look like flying moths therefore the ...
Most Beautiful Flower Pictures Of Yellow Orchids
Yellow flower trivia: the color yellow as on the following yellow orchid flower pictures represents joy. Yellow stimulates creative and intellectual part of out brains. Yellow flowers can bring clarity to decision-making and improves concentration. Most men commonly associate yellow with an immature childish color, but universally yellow is perceived as the color of gold, ...
