Beautiful Dandelion

This time I have a beautiful yellow flower for you, a dandelion, which is pretty common and commonly pretty they are.

Hepatica along the Fiery Gizzard Trail in the South Cumberland

Hepatica along the Fiery Gizzard Trail in the South Cumberland. Always look forward to these early signs of the return of Spring.

Calliandra haematocephala (Red Powder Puff, Powder Puff Tree)

Calliandra haematocephala (Red Powder Puff, Powder Puff Tree).
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding." - Gian Carlo Menotti

 

Beautiful Blooming Flower

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The Beautiful Pollen Dusted Heart

The poppy anemone popularly in English is a species of flowering planet in the genus Anemone, native to the Mediterranean region. Read More - The African violet (Saintpaulia Hybrids)

“Tricolor” Goblet Shaped Flower

Photographer Rosie Nixon given the name 'Tricolor' due to its purple-lilac goblet shaped which also has a band of white and yellow at the base. I have quite a few of these in flower in the garden but during the winter months it's not easy to take the image outdoors. Photographer Rosie gets the pictures and picked which can explore them with a macro lens indoors. Rosie captured this image just as the heat of the room was encouraging the crocus to open its goblet shaped flowers and reveal its nectar.

The Beautiful Monkey Shaped Flower

The beautiful Moraea Villosa is a species of peacock moraea, normally a group of plants named for the large conspicuous eye like eye-shaped patterns on the board outer petals of the flowers like found on the feathers of a peacock. There’re two subspecies recognized; M.V.Villosa has purple, pink, blue, or whitish petals, whereas the other M.V. Elandmontana is bright orange.

The pattern consists of a green to blue or close to black iridescent crescent, surrounding a cream to orange and eye is covered with long hairs. The complete shape is normally edged in dark violet. The delicate flowers grows from August to September, with only one flower at one time, and remain blooms for just mere two days, normally opening in the late morning, and open until the early afternoon of the following day.

The primary pollinator of Moraea villosa is commonly referred to as monkey beetles, due to their dark, hairy bodies and elongate or thickened hind legs. The attractive flower Moraea normally participated in great abduance in the mass spring flower display of the cape lowlands, although 80% of its habitat to wheat fields and urban expansion, only some population remains in isolated renosterveld fragments. Populations on these trivial fragments, which are surrounded by crop fields, are endangered by a lack of fire, loss of pollinators, pollution by pesticides and fertilizer, and invasion by alien plants, predominantly grasses, which find favorable habitat in the fertilizer-enriched soil.

Moraea Villosa is everlasting cormous geophyte, normally grows 40cm tall, and its stems are soft and hairy, and leafs are normally longer than stem. It is also classified as vulnerable, because of its minor population size, and only one population of about 350 plants is known.