Maroon and dark flowers
Chocolate cosmos, black tulips, dark dahlias and bat flowers.
Sour cherryPrunus cerasus
The small, tart cherry tree grown for its sour red fruit
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Flowering tree
LilacSyringa
Fragrant spring-flowering shrubs and small trees grown for their showy clusters
Syringa · Flowering shrub
Yucca
Dry-climate plants with pointed leaves and clusters of creamy white flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 4 more · Wildflower
Saucer magnoliaMagnolia × soulangeana
A spring-flowering magnolia with large pink, white, or purple blooms
🇫🇷 France and 1 more · Garden flower
Dotted hawthornCrataegus punctata
A thorny North American hawthorn with pale bark and colourful fruit
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 more · Wildflower
Sausage treeKigelia africana
African tree with large sausage-shaped fruit and striking maroon flowers
🇰🇪 Kenya and 2 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Prunus: Benjamin Gimmel, BenHur, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lilac: Marisa DeMeglio, CC BY 2.0, source
- Yucca: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saucer magnolia: Piotr Kuczynski, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dotted hawthorn: Nadiatalent, Public domain, source
- Sausage tree: Photographs: Ettore Balocchi (upper left), Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (, CC BY-SA 3.0, source