Many-coloured flowers
Pansies, lantana, bougainvillea, zinnias and parrot tulips.
Blue morning gloryIpomoea indica
A fast-growing vine with vivid blue funnel flowers that fade to pink by dusk
🇺🇸 United States and 7 more · Climber
Lycaste
A genus of orchids with pleated leaves and fragrant, spotted blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico · Orchid
Tillandsia
Rootless plants that live on trees, rock and air, grown as house plants
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Tropical flower
Santa Cruz water lilyVictoria cruziana
A giant South American water lily with heat-producing pink-and-white flowers
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 more · Water flower
Angel's-tearsBrugmansia suaveolens
A night-fragrant trumpet flower from Brazil, now grown worldwide
🇧🇷 Brazil and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Lipstick plantAeschynanthus
Tropical trailing plants with vivid flowers that peek from tube-like calyces
Aeschynanthus · Tropical flower
Ti plantCordyline fruticosa
A tropical shrub with vivid leaves, used across the Pacific for ritual and food
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
FrangipaniPlumeria rubra
A fragrant tropical tree with pink, white and yellow flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Blue morning glory: Paulo rsmenezes, CC BY-SA 3.0 br, source
- Lycaste: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tillandsia: JLPC, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Santa Cruz water lily: Jayme Bastos, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Angel's-tears: Kolforn ( Kolforn ) I'd appreciate if you could mail me (Kolforn@gmail, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lipstick plant: Montrealais, CC BY 3.0, source
- Ti plant: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Frangipani: Zachi Evenor and MathKnight, CC BY 2.0, source