What's your favourite flower?

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Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

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Did you know that Catasetum integerrimum are distant cousins of Jedi order of Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Plants are really monsters … Since plants have roots they would be the logical method of locomotion. However, how about a plant with “leafy” walking apendages? The plant would then be dragging the roots behind it. How about an epiphyte? A deadly walking orchid marching along on its back bulbs. Here a few monsters pretending to be plants that are quietly lurking around …

Plant-cephalopod
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Aristolochia Salvadorensis, not just a "man-eating’ plant … but it eats Orks too … !
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These alien critters spits out poison burrs at a prodigious rate at you.
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Tacca chantrieri a distant relative of the Triffids
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Reading Day of the Triffids when I was a teenager probably made me a little wary of odd looking plants 😸
 
Uvularia grandiflora , the large-flowered bellwort or merrybells,

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Costus speciosus , also known as crepe or Malay ginger

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This thread makes me realise why these words were spoken - - - - - - - -

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I was in town this morning and a Laburnum Tree in blossom caught my eye . They make a beautiful sight and the blossom is more sturdy than cherry blossom which doesn’t stay around too long in the English weather .

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There are some Amish farmers near where I live that grow these flowers for saffron.

Crocus sativus?

My mother has training in horticulture and she taught me the Latin names of plants, like sativus which is the masculine form of the word which means “cultivated”.

Rice = oriza sativa (feminine)
Oats = avena sativa (feminine)

And now crocus sativus (masculine)

Thanks for teaching me a new term 👍
 
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Dillenia indica , elephant apple flower

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I saw this fine Easter Cactus flower, Hatiora Gaertneri, growing from a pot on one of the patios in my condo complex.

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Very pretty 🙂
Not many flowers in my garden now as we are well in to Autumn and I haven’t planted enough for this time of year.Im waiting for Heartsease (Johnyjumpups) to appear though,it will be very nice to have that bit of colour.
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@Greenfields might know this one . It grows down under . 😄

Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘rosea’ , known as Red Flowering Gum

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They remind me of May Gibbs illustrations for her famed Gumnut babies, stories first published in 1918.
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