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An older, but similar work by O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), focusing on only a single flower, was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2014 for $44,405,000, more than tripling the previous world record auction for a piece by a female artist. [5]
Prior to the mid-1980s, rice flower was extensively harvested from the wild for the cut flower trade. Following research on the species, commercial cultivation commenced in 1990 and by 1999 there were about 100 growers and exports, mainly to Japan , had increased to about 600,000 stems.
Ipomoea alba, known in English as tropical white morning glory, moonflower or moonvine, is a species of night-blooming morning glory, native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from Argentina to northern Mexico, Arizona, Florida [3] and the West Indies. [4]
Simple five-petal flower icon, self-made by User:AnonMoos based on abstract circle geometry. For other abstract geometric flowers, see Image:Retro-flower-ornaments.svg Converted from a version of the PostScript vector source code listed on image description page of source image File:Five_petal_flower_icon.svg: Date: 1 February 2013, 11:48 (UTC ...
The photograph depicts a lush green rolling hill with cirrus clouds during a daytime sky, with mountains far in the background. [1] [2] It was taken by Charles O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, California, in the Napa Valley region north of San Francisco, while on his way to visit his girlfriend in ...
Each inflorescence is a ball-like structure covered by 40 to 100 small flowers that have five tiny petals (pentamerous) and long erect stamens, which give the flower head a fluffy appearance. [ 4 ] Developing after flowering has finished, the seed pods are flattish, straight or slightly curved, 5–14 cm (2–6 in) long and 5–8 mm wide.
The flowers are 2.5–3 cm diameter with five petals, variably red, orange, pink, white, and yellow. [2] Their upright, or ascending, long shoots branch usually near the base. The spreading 20-to-25-millimeters-long and 2-to-3-millimeters-wide leaves are almost or completely stalk-shaped, and taper towards the tip.
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).