Echinacea & Etc.

Just here to share photos of flowery things, as well as anything else remotely botanical/garden-related~ I am currently studying biology & have also worked a few summers at a local garden center, and would be more than happy to attempt to answer any questions you may have!  - Kurio & Conner (slight heads up: I tend to also occasionally reblog photos of plants ft. various reptiles/bugs)

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Feels like it's been so long since I've posted anything, just been doing other hobbies lately I guess :]

But here's some cool black petunias I saw at the local gardening store, their petals were like velvet. Their colour is actually a really, really dark purple!

[libutron]

Black Orchid - Fredclarkeara Black Lace ‘Baker’s Dark Angel’ 

In nature, black flowers are rare. The reality is that there is almost no plant in the world that is truly black in color. Most are shades of deep blue or reds or purples. This is also true about orchid flowers. Growers and hybridizers have tried many different orchid plants and hybrid orchid varieties to try to get to a truly black flower.

Among the most notable hybrids (since 2010) with truly black flowers (currently commercially available from Sunset Valley Orchids) you can find Fredclarkeara (Asparagales - Orchidaceae), an intergeneric hybrid between the orchid genera Catasetum, Clowesia and Mormodes. (Ctsm. x Cl. x Morm.).

The Fredclarkeara breeding produces flowers that are fragrant, have lots of color and are long lasting. As you can see on this one in the photo, the Fredclarkeara Black Lace ‘Baker’s Dark Angel’ is indeed black.

References: [1] - [2]

Photo credit: ©Brent Baker | Locality: cultivated (2013)

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梅雨の花

[angelnumber27]

Different types of passion flowers <3

[angelnumber27]

The Australian Sundew (Drosera aliciae) is a species of carnivorous plant native to the Cape provinces of South Africa. It’s appearance mimics drops of water, which attract unsuspecting insects, and are in reality sticky glue-like droplets that attach themselves to the insect, eventually curling itself around the insect and digesting its prey with enzymes.

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[liyahetman]

Very rare - black orchid or Cymbidium Kiwi Midnight.

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Crepis Rubra

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Chinese Hibiscus ~ wang24824

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Morning light on hydrangea.

Kazahaya garden in Mie, Japan.

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This spring and summer, I need to spend as much time as possible wandering around in parks.

[jetix]

2020-07-11

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[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

azalea blossoms in suzhou gardens by 视觉影像杨

[lurelurk]

@graveyarddirt I'm not usually a petunia guy but THESE. Figured you'd appreciate them.

[graveyarddirt]

This assumption was 100% correct! <3

Goth petunias did, in fact, catch my eye, but I'm also really loving the ones on the left that kinda sorta remind me of henbane flowers.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BWeTI6LBUYl/

[uyamt]

紫陽花（あじさい）

Hydrangea

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scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

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