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Close up of flower. Dianthus plumarius is a compact evergreen perennial reaching on average 30–60 centimetres (12–24 in) in height. The stem is green, erect, glabrous and branched on the top. The leaves are opposite, simple, linear and sessile, more or less erect and flexuous, with a sheath embracing the stem. They are about 3 millimetres ...
Dipodium roseum is a leafless, tuberous, perennial, mycoheterotrophic herb.Between fifteen and fifty pale pink flowers with small dark red spots and 20–30 mm (0.8–1 in) wide are borne on a green to dark reddish black flowering stem 40–100 cm (20–40 in) tall.
It grows as a spreading tree to 7–8 m (23–26 ft) high and wide, and is flushed with fragrant flowers of shades of pink, white and yellow over the summer and autumn. Its common names include frangipani, [2] red paucipan, [2] red-jasmine, [2] red frangipani, common frangipani, temple tree, [2] calachuchi, [5] or simply plumeria.
Pink flowers are used as a symbol of love and awareness. For decades, pink flowers have been used to decorate weddings as a symbol of love. [1] They can also be used as a display of love at funerals, as demonstrated at the funeral for Anna Nicole Smith. [2] [3] More recently, pink flowers have come to symbolize breast cancer awareness. [4]
Below the flower stand four bracts, which reach to half of the calyx; they are ciliated and point upward. The calyx forms a cylindrical, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long tube, the corolla reaches 3 to 4 cm in diameter and is serrated at the edge. The color of the petals ranges from white to pink to dark red, the middle is often pigmented darker.
It flowers in late spring and early summer [3] and tends to be found in low moist woods, ravines, or stream banks in partial or full shade. [2] The flowers are red, erect, tubes with a star-shaped yellow center at the tip. [4] It will grow 30–61 cm (1–2 ft) high with a spread of 15–46 cm (0.5–1.5 ft). [2] Indian pink
A leafless flower stalk rises from the basal leaves to a height of about 30 centimetres (12 in). Pink-red to red-purple flowers are arranged in open groups at the end of the flower stalks. The flowers, which only open for a couple of hours in the early afternoon, have 5 to 8 rounded petals, 2 sepals, 30 to 45 stamens, and a pistil with a thin ...
A Lychnis moth caterpillar feeding on the seeds of red campion (Silene dioica). This plant is used as an ornamental perennial flower for the perennial border. One particularly notable variety is a hot pink, double flowered variety with deep green leaves called 'Firefly'.