🇲🇬 The flowers of Madagascar
33 pages from Madagascar: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 3 cities and regions.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of Madagascar on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
Cities and regions of Madagascar
Ylang-ylangCananga odorata
A tropical tree with highly fragrant yellow flowers used for perfume and decoration
🇻🇳 Vietnam and 8 more · Flowering tree
Pelargonium
A diverse group of flowering plants often grown as garden and house plants
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Erica
Evergreen shrubs with tiny needle leaves and nodding flowers, known as heaths or heathers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
Cape primroseStreptocarpus
A houseplant with tubular blooms from African mountains and forests
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Crocosmia
Sword-leaved perennials with bright red and orange summer flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 more · Garden flower
Poison bulbCrinum asiaticum
A large white-flowered lily grown in warm gardens, toxic if eaten
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 5 more · Wildflower
Helichrysum
A large group of daisy-like flowers known for their lasting dried blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
A compact succulent with bright winter blooms from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 1 more · Garden flower
Royal poincianaDelonix regia
A tropical tree with bright red-orange flowers and fern-like leaves
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 8 more · Flowering tree
Disa
A genus of red-flowered orchids from Africa, some grown as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Plectranthus
A genus of mint-family plants from Africa and Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Herb or useful flower
Impatiens
A large genus of flowering herbs known for their explosive seed pods and colorful blooms
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
Banks' grevilleaGrevillea banksii
A Queensland shrub with creamy or scarlet flowers and divided leaves
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Flowering shrub
Beach BarringtoniaBarringtonia asiatica
A coastal tree with fragrant night-blooming flowers and buoyant toxic fruit
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 7 more · Flowering tree
Dombeya
A large genus of flowering shrubs and trees, mostly from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Stephanotis floribunda
A tropical vine with clusters of fragrant white, waxy flowers from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Madagascar periwinkleCatharanthus
A pink-flowered herb from Madagascar used in medicine and gardens
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
Stephanotis
A tropical climber with waxy, fragrant white flowers
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Royal poinciana: Averette, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pelargonium: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red Disa: Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana: বাক্যবাগীশ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Helichrysum: Iorsh at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Beach Barringtonia: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Plectranthus: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Erica: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Darwin’s orchid: No machine-readable author provided. Jeffdelonge assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Poison bulb: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ylang-ylang: User:B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocosmia: Brocken Inaglory ( Brocken Inaglory ) at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Impatiens: Cj.samson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Banks' grevillea: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dombeya: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Madagascar periwinkle: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source