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The Golden Trumpet

Allamanda cathartica or the Golden Trumpet flower is used widely in India

Most Expensive Flowers in the World

Juliet rose.

This flower's cost is 30 cores is it ! ya this is true. the rose is to be released at the flowers exhibition to the public some time ago . some times known as 30 cores in a auction. David Austin who is creator of this flower in his garden after over 15 years of intensive breeding and named Juliet rose.

Gold of Kinabalu orchid

The extremely rare flower's cost is nearly 4 lacs and it takes time up to 15 years   to flower, just one stem at a time. The endangered flower can be found in Kinabalu islands of Malaysia and it blooms only between April and May.It is also called the Gold of Kinabalu

Kadupul Flower

The flower is rare and so frill that only blooms in few hours , blossoming just before midnight and perishing during the sun rise.The flower native to the mountain areas of Srilanka. The flower emits strange fragrance.No one has yet been able to remove the flower from its stem. It is completely priceless.

Saffron Crocus

Saffron crocus which is the most expensive spice in the world, can use as medicine and yellow dye. It is the dried stigma ( which is also called thread) of the crocus flower. It was first cultivated in Greece.
The Indian Saffron which is Kashmir Mogra is the world's finest saffron.
Nearly 75,000 blossoms are needed to make a single pound of saffron. for this reason, the price of saffron may range

Shenzhen Nongke Orchid

By the result of eight years research in agriculture is Shenzhen Nongke Orchid flower, It blossoms once in 5 years. The flower was sold at auction nearly 1core 25 lac's in 2005

Parrot flower

The flower petals shape resembles a parrot in flight and are in shades of pale lilac,reddish purple,and white .It is found in northern Thailand (near Chiang Mai) Myanmar and in the north-east Indian state of Manipur.

Images from; fine6.com

Parrot flower,Impatiens psittacina or parrot balsam was discovered by a British official A.H . Hildebrand, in the shan states of upper Burma

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Monkey-Like Dracula Orchid

Dracula simia is an orchid whose flower resembles the face of a monkey.

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1. It is found mainly in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other neighboring countries.

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2. Dracula, literally means 'little dragon' referring to the strange aspect of the two long spurs of the two long sepals, hence has the name 'Monkey-like Orchid'.

3. They grow mainly in lower temperatures.

4. The flower has the fragrance of a ripe orange fruit.

5. It is not a seasonal flower.

6. The arrangement of column, petals and lip strongly resembles a monkey's face.[

7. It is also epiphytic like many other orchids.

The Wild Blue Lupine Flower

Source: Photo by USFWS; Joel Trick

The Wild Blue Lupine flower belongs to the family of legumes. It is a is a perennial flower found much in the eastern United States.It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens. Regarding the color of the flowers, they are typically blue, but can also be white, shades of purple, violet. Occasionally they can be pink. They have 5 petals.The small (1-2½'' tall) bell-shaped flowers grow on a spike. The flower stalks are about 5 inches long. They have long, slender green leaves arranged in a whorl. The palmately compound leaves have 7-11 leaflets. The stems are light to reddish green and canescent-hairy.The plant can grow up to 2 feet tall.The seed pods are elongated and up to 2 inches long. Each pod contains on an average 15 seeds. As the pods dry, they twist and eventually pop open, shooting seeds in all directions. If you are in a patch of wild blue lupine when the seeds are drying you can hear the pods exploding. They will sometimes pop open in your hands if you are collecting the seeds.

The plant was once thought to deplete or wolf the mineral content of the soil; hence the genus name derived from the Latin lupus (wolf). Quite contrarily, the plant and the family Fabaceae enhances soil fertility by fixing atmospheric nitrogen.

Blue lupine is the lone host plant for a little butterfly called the Karner Blue, an endangered species. The leaves of the wild lupine are its sole food. Habitat loss has led to the decline in plants, and put the Karner Blue on the endangered species list.When these larvae emerge in the spring they eat lupine leaves. The butterfly disappeared from Ohio when the lupines numbers start depleting.

All parts of the wild lupine flower are poisonous to humans, pets, horses and other livestock.

The best place to see wild blue lupine flowers is at Kitty Todd Preserve. The annual Blue Weekend at Kitty Todd is a celebration of blue lupine and the Karner Blue Butterfly.

Roses, Roses!

Recently, I was to Mandu in Madhya Pradesh, India. A historic place famous for the great muslim Kings who ruled here. There's the tomb of Hoshang Shah, completed in about A.D. 1440. Around the tomb is a beautiful garden with so many kinds of roses. I happened to capture a few in my camera. Here are those.

Yellow-white mix, its so gud.

Ah! this red-yellow blend shade is superb!

This is one really awesome variety.

Pinky, pinky.

Beautiful white!

Few more whites.

The bud itself is this big, what to say of the fully blossomed flower!

I think I'm not wrong if I say that there is no human being on earth who doesn't adore roses.

The Spectacular Paper Flowers

Hey everyone! this is another collection of Bougainvillea flowers from my garden. We' re soon going to leave this place where we're presently staying. so, just thought of grabbing everything beautiful around me into my camera.