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The spikes contain 5 to 18 groups of flowers in threes and are up to 40 mm (2 in) in diameter and 20–50 mm (0.8–2 in) long. The petals are about 3 mm (0.1 in) long and fall off as the flower ages. The stamens are white, cream-coloured or greenish and are arranged in 5 bundles around the flower, with 5 to 10 stamens per bundle. Flowering ...
Tiny white flowers usually appear in clusters surrounded by colorful papery bracts, hence the name paperflower. The leaves are dark green, variable in shape, up to 100 mm (4 in) long. [ 7 ] The flowers are about 0.4 cm (0.16 in) in diameter (the pink petal-like structures are not petals, but bracts).
With large lobed leaves and branching red stems, it produces corymbs of deep pink or peach, sweet fragrant flowers in the summer. [11] Inflorescences of F. rubra are panicles possessing 200–1,000 small pink-petaled flowers on 1–2 m stems can have somewhere to 5,000 seeds. [10] The numerous stamens give the flower a fuzzy appearance. [12]
Cut the spike two or three nodes below the lowest flower, and the orchid may bloom again in as soon as 8 to 12 weeks. “There’s a 50% chance a new stalk will grow from the old one,” Kondrat says.
Kniphofia (/ n ɪ p ˈ h oʊ f i ə /, [2] / n ɪ ˈ f oʊ f i ə / [3]) is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794. [4] All species of Kniphofia are native to Africa. Common names include tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily and poker plant.
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Strelitzia reginae, commonly known as the crane flower, bird of paradise, or isigude in Nguni, [3] is a species of flowering plant native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. An evergreen perennial , it is widely cultivated for its dramatic flowers.