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Chamaecostus cuspidatus, common name fiery costus or spiral flag, is a species of herbaceous plant in the family Costaceae native to eastern Brazil (States of Bahia and Espírito Santo). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In India, it is known as insulin plant for its purported anti-diabetic properties. [ 4 ]
Cuphea ignea, the cigar plant, cigar flower, [2] firecracker plant, or Mexican cigar, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cuphea of the family Lythraceae. It is a tropical, densely branched evergreen subshrub. [3] This species, native to Mexico and the West Indies, produces small, tubular, bright red to orange flowers. [4]
Melaleuca flammea was first named in 2006 by Lyndley Craven in Novon. [5] [6] It had first been formally described as Callistemon acuminatus by Edwin Cheel in 1911 in Illustrations of New South Wales Plants from a specimen collected "on slopes of rocky mountains, Crawford River, 7 miles (10km) from Bullahdelah." [7] The specific epithet (flammea) is from the Latin flammeus meaning “fiery ...
This hellish association between, on the one hand the flower with its black hairs and, on the other, the sooty Devil and his equally sooty friend the coal miner is reinforced by the fiery orange colouration of the flowers, reminiscent of both the flames of a coal fire and the unquenchable flames of hellfire – as further recognised in the ...
Gloriosa are herbaceous perennials that climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their leaves and can reach 3 meters in height. They have showy flowers, many with distinctive and pronouncedly reflexed petals, like a Turk's cap lily, ranging in colour from a greenish-yellow through yellow, orange, red and sometimes even a deep pinkish-red.
Silene virginica, the fire pink, [2] is a wildflower in the pink family, Caryophyllaceae.It is known for its distinct brilliant red flowers.Fire pink begins blooming in late spring and continuing throughout the summer.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is currently spewing fiery red-orange lava up to 250 feet high from its north vent – in what’s called "Episode 8" of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption.
All plants produce spikes of upright, brightly coloured flowers well above the foliage, in shades of red, orange and yellow, often bicoloured. [5] The flowers produce copious nectar while blooming and are attractive to bees and sunbirds. In the New World, they may attract nectarivores such as hummingbirds and New World orioles.