Feb 14, 2018
it looks so soft.
seen from Spain
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Norway
seen from China
seen from Norway
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Brazil
it looks so soft.
Chocolate Cosmos The Chocolate cosmos, named so due to its unique odor of vanillin, originated in Mexico. Where it used to bask in the sunlight. Now, the chocolate cosmos is extinct in the wild since 1902. Only few seeds remained and got cultipvated by Kew Gardens in Britain and for the longest time every chocolate cosmos found in a garden was a clone of one of these seeds. Luckily for the cosmos, other, fertile and cultivated chocolate cosmos specimen where discovered in New Zealand in 2010, allowing refreshment in the genepool and hybridization.
Welcome to FloraFebruary You know I like pushing my comfort zones. You also know what I rarely ever draw? Plants. Like, actually existing plants. So Flora February is supposed to help me with that. Each day I will post a plant of some sort. Not all flowers, also succulents, trees, grasses... all. This wont interfere with fish friday, wich is still happening and im looking forward to tomorrows piece. It will also only go for this month. So sit back, relax and watch beauty unfold when i once again challenge myself.
The arum is not only a beautyful plant, its transformation over the turn of a year is also interresting. Starting in spring as a plant with a huge flameshaped blossom, it ends in fall as a berry shrub with amazingly brilliant color. The catch? Well its poisonous in all aspects, containing calcium oxalate as raphides. Ah. And also, opposite to yesterdays plant, the arum stinks. Quite terribly in fact.
My grandmother has a huge aloe in her backyard in germany. The thing has been there since before I was born and is secretly a family member. every winter the thing changes pots and gets pushed into the warm wintergarden. Its an event.
why are so many of the most beautyful flowers blooming in the highest mountains?
Couldnt do a flora february without at least one palmtree. Looking at them reminds me of summer holidays. Innocent times.
Last one for today Im officially back on track.