http://www.orchids-flowers.com The Beauty of Orchids and Flowers Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/orange-trumpet-creeper-pyrostegia-venusta/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/orange-trumpet-creeper-pyrostegia-venusta/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:24:17 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3125 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/orange-trumpet-creeper-pyrostegia-venusta/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/hoya-macgillivrayi-f-m-bailey-1914/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/hoya-macgillivrayi-f-m-bailey-1914/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:05:53 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3226 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/hoya-macgillivrayi-f-m-bailey-1914/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/bull-tongue-arrowhead-sagittaria-lancifolia/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/bull-tongue-arrowhead-sagittaria-lancifolia/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:04:19 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3158 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/bull-tongue-arrowhead-sagittaria-lancifolia/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-flower-pachyphytum-compactum/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-flower-pachyphytum-compactum/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:15:43 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3171 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-flower-pachyphytum-compactum/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/camellia-sasanqua/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/camellia-sasanqua/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:17:03 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3093 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 plant [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/camellia-sasanqua/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/giant-water-lily-nymphaea-gigantea/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/giant-water-lily-nymphaea-gigantea/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:50:45 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3096 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/giant-water-lily-nymphaea-gigantea/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-huernia-macrocarpa/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-huernia-macrocarpa/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:22:24 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3062 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...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/succulent-huernia-macrocarpa/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/dutchmans-pipe-aristolochia-ringens/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/dutchmans-pipe-aristolochia-ringens/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:55:52 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3065 Aristolochia ringens Vahl, commonly called Gaping Dutchman’s Pipe, Pelican Flower or pipe vine, is a tropical creeper native to South America. Gaping Dutchman’s Pipe vines can reach heights up to 6 meters and has been reportetd as an invasive species in Sri Lanka. The impressive flowers reach a length up to 25 cm and can [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/dutchmans-pipe-aristolochia-ringens/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/carrion-flower-duvalia-corderoyi/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/carrion-flower-duvalia-corderoyi/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:47:24 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=2988 The strange looking Stapeliad Duvalia corderoyi (Hooker f.) N. E. Brown, 1876, commonly called starfish flower or carrion flower, is a tropical, succulent plant from the dogbane family (Apocynaceae) and depends to the same subfamily Asclepiadoideae like Hoya plants. Duvalia corderoyi is native to South Africa and the flowers have a very unpleasant excrement smell, [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/carrion-flower-duvalia-corderoyi/feed/ 0 http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/water-lily-nymphaea-ply/ http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/water-lily-nymphaea-ply/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:11:41 +0000 admin http://www.orchids-flowers.com/?p=3023 The stunningly beautiful Water Lily, Nympaea Ply is a crossing between the water lily hybrids Nymphaea Trail Blazer and Nymphaea Mr. Martin E. Randig. The aquatic plant has been hybridized by the most well-known water lily breeder in Thailand Dr. Slearmlarp (Sam) Wasuwat. We found the Nymphaea Ply water lily hybrid in the Queen Sirikit [read more...]]]> http://www.orchids-flowers.com/tropical-flowers/water-lily-nymphaea-ply/feed/ 0