🇲🇬 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
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
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
Delonix
A genus of tropical trees with claw-shaped petals from Madagascar and East Africa
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Flowering tree
Woodfordia fruticosadhavdi
A flowering shrub found from Africa to South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 7 more · Wildflower
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
Hypericum revolutum
A bright yellow-flowered shrub of African and Arabian mountain slopes
🇨🇲 Cameroon and 2 more · Wildflower
Combretum
A large group of tropical trees and shrubs called bushwillows
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 more · Flowering tree
VanillaVanilla planifolia
The climbing orchid behind most of the world’s vanilla flavour
🇲🇽 Mexico and 8 more · Wildflower
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
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
The sky-blue water lily of ancient Egypt and African lakes
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water 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
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
Beach BarringtoniaBarringtonia asiatica
A coastal tree with fragrant night-blooming flowers and buoyant toxic fruit
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 7 more · Flowering tree
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
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
- 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
- Helichrysum: Iorsh at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Woodfordia fruticosa: Hooker, William; Salisbury, R. A.; Shury, D. N., Public domain, source
- Aristea: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Combretum: Marco Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Beach Barringtonia: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Delonix: Challiyan at ml.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Poison bulb: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocosmia: Brocken Inaglory ( Brocken Inaglory ) at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hypericum revolutum: Alastair Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Impatiens: Cj.samson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source