Tropical Flowers


Orange Trumpet Creeper (Pyrostegia venusta)

Orange Trumpet Creeper (Pyrostegia venusta), a member of the Bignonia family (Bignoniaceae), is an impressive tropical vine native to South America, but nowadays a well-liked creeper in many tropical countries. The Orange Trumpet Creeper (Pyrostegia venusta) requires full sun and blooms mostly in winter in cascades of orange tubular flowers. The plant can climb up [read more...]

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Hoya macgillivrayi

Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914 with its magnificent flowers has been named by Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967), a British intelligence officer, in honour to the Australian Naturalist, Physician and Ornithologist William David Kerr Macgillivray (1867 – 1933). Hoya macgillivrayi is endemic to the Iron Range – McIlwraith Range area of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, [read more...]

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Bull Tongue Arrowhead (Sagittaria lancifolia)

Sagittaria lancifolia L. 1759, commonly called Bull Tongue Arrowhead is a perennial plant belonging to the water plantains (Alismataceae). Because of its large potato-like bulbo-tuber Sagittaria lancifolia is also known as duck potato. The aquatic plant found in marshes and swamps is native to the south of the USA, but widely spread throughout tropical countries [read more...]

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Succulent Flower Pachyphytum compactum

Pachyphytum compactum Rose 1911 with its colorful flowers is a succulent plant belonging to the orpine family (Crassulaceae). Pachyphytum compactum is native to the mexican federal states Hidalgo and Querétaro and grows on shady cliffs in altitudes of 2000 meters. Primarily this orpine plant has been described by the American botanist Joseph Nelson Rose in [read more...]

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Camellia sasanqua

Camellia sasanqua Thunb., commonly called Christmas Camellia, is an evergreen shrub belonging to the Theaceae family. The most well-known representative of the Camellia genus is for sure the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). The beautiful red Camellia sasanqua is native to the coastal forests of southern Japan and has been cultivated in Japan, where the …

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Giant Waterlily (Nymphaea gigantea)

The Giant Water Lily (Nymphaea gigantea Hook.1852) is worthy of the name as the flower is one of the biggest flowers in the plant kingdom. Giant water lily flowers reach a size up to 30 cm in diameter, leaves get a size up to 70 cm and the stems raise the attractive, white flowers about [read more...]

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Succulent  Huernia macrocarpa

Huernia macrocarpa (A. Rich.) Sprenger 1892 is a succulent plant, belonging to the milkweed family (Apocynaceae) and the same subfamily Asclepiadoideae as the beautiful Hoya plants. The succulent Huernia macrocarpa has been described primarily by the French botanist Achille Richard (1794-1852) in the year 1851 as Stapelia macrocarpa. 1892 the species has been transfered to [read more...]

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