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July 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM. It's sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In ...
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae ). Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower. These petals attract pollinators, and reproductive organs that produce gametophytes, which in ...
Alstroemeria 'Saturne'. Alstroemeria ( / ˌælstrɪˈmɪəriə / ), commonly called the Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. They are all native to South America, although some have become naturalized in the United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Chrysanthemums ( / krɪˈsænθəməmz / kriss-AN-thə-məmz ), sometimes called mums or chrysanths, [ 5 ] are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae. [ 4 ] They are native to East Asia and northeastern Europe. Most species originate from East Asia and the center of diversity is in China. [ 6 ]
The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes 20–40 cm (8–16 in) long, each flower 4–7 cm (1 + 5 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) diameter with five yellow petals of equal size and shape. The fruit is a legume , 30–60 cm (12–24 in) long and 1.5–2.5 cm ( 9 ⁄ 16 –1 in) broad, with a pungent odor and containing several seeds.
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L. 19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ; / ˌkɒnvəˈleɪriə məˈdʒeɪlɪs / ), [ 2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [ 3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in ...
Stephanotis floribunda syn. S. jasminoides, the Madagascar jasmine, waxflower, Hawaiian wedding flower, or bridal wreath is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Madagascar. It is a twining, sparsely branched liana that can measure up to 6 m in length. Despite its common name, the species is not a "true jasmine" and ...