🇲🇬 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
VanillaVanilla planifolia
The climbing orchid behind most of the world’s vanilla flavour
🇲🇽 Mexico and 8 more · Wildflower
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
The sky-blue water lily of ancient Egypt and African lakes
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water flower
Plectranthus
A genus of mint-family plants from Africa and Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Herb or useful flower
Aristea
African evergreen perennials with short-lived blue morning flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Impatiens
A large genus of flowering herbs known for their explosive seed pods and colorful blooms
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
Smithia
A genus of legume herbs with pink or purple pea-like flowers
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Herb or useful flower
Madagascar periwinkleCatharanthus
A pink-flowered herb from Madagascar used in medicine and gardens
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Vanilla: Everglades National Park, Public domain, source
- Aristea: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Plectranthus: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Impatiens: Cj.samson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Madagascar periwinkle: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source