Acacia acinacea (gold-dust wattle), a shrub up to 2.5 metres high from south-eastern Australia #RBGMelbourne #Fabaceae #ozplants

King protea (Protea cynaroides), the national flower of South Africa #RBGMelbourne #Proteaceae

From the summer - Roheda tree full of lush blossoms!

Monstera acacoyaguensis is a climber with fenestrate (“windowed”) leaves. The windows in the leaves form via programmed cell death (apoptosis) during leaf development. Botanists don’t have a satisfactory explanation for why windows evolved. #TropicalBotany #Araceae #aroids

Rubus (#Rosaceae) fruits are aggregations of little drupes, sometimes collectively called (not by me) a drupecetum. An aggregate fruit is formed from the separate carpels of single flower functioning like 1 fruit. The -cetum suffix indicates an aggregation. #fruit #drupe

The field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, is another birth flower for those born in August. These flowers are sacred to Demeter, Greek goddess of fertility, agriculture, and harvest. In the ‘language of flowers’ they symbolise lasting love, remembrance, and consolation. #FolkloreThursday

A Sheesham tree fell down in the storm. People were planning to chop it and throw it away. After sharing the SOP and Court order, Forest Dept. and PWD saved this tree. SOP - drive.google.com/file/d/1yN5wKN… #savetrees #trees #DELHI

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Star of the East' has the largest flowers!

POTD – Oeonia volucris (IUCN EN), #Asparagales, #Orchidaceae, epiphyte #endemic to #Madagascar, recorded in #Pointe_à_LarréePA, #Analanjirofo_Region, #Accelerated_Taxonomy

A hardy lotus in an unheated pond in the botanical garden of Leiden, Netherlands. Name of the cultivar: Nelumbo nucifera 'Pekinensis Rubra'. Tetrapanax 'Rex' behind it. Hortus Leiden

Purchased this Gladiolus papilio Yellow flower from Chris Cooke. A great addition to my small collection.

Today is my new favourite day 😁

The Neotropical Pachira aquatica flowers at night. Its fragrant, nectar-rich flowers attract bats & moths, & come morning, bees, all of which are pollinators. If one pollinator is absent, the others can still do the job. Pollination resilience. #TropicalBotany

We are the fag end of August. Raining everyday Yet a few red gulmohar and yellow amaltas #flowers continue to bloom. Is it resilience, persistence of a few.. Or is it #climate change? Gulmohar = Delonix regia, royal poinciana Amaltas = Cassia fistula, Indian laburnum

Cluster fig since it fruits in clusters. Gular what we call them. Trees are laden with their fruits these days. #TreesOfDelhi

#FlowersOnFriday is one of my yellow Brugmansia finally blooming. This time last summer they were all covered in flowers but sporadic water has kept them from having lots of blooms. They still smell amazing though 🥰 #Gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers #TropicalFlowers #Plants

Colchicum x agrippinum, with gorgeous tessellation on the pointed petals ...

The Aster, or ‘starwort’, is a birth #flower of #September, named after the goddess Astraea who metamorphosed into the constellation #Virgo when she fled the Earth. It is said her tears fell from the heavens as she mourned mankind’s loss of innocence, and transformed into Asters.

Fascicularia bicolor en septembre

The rampant Clematis tangutica 'My Angel' is starting to do what I hoped!