🇳🇵 The flowers of Nepal
50 pages from Nepal: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 8 cities and regions.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of Nepal on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
Flower experiences in Nepal
🇳🇵 Kathmandu · Oct to NovTihar garland markets of KathmanduFor the five days of Tihar, the old bazaars of Kathmandu are hung with marigold and amaranth garlands.
🇳🇵 Pokhara · Mar to AprGhorepani rhododendron forest trekA short Annapurna trek through forests of Nepal's national flower, the red tree rhododendron.Cities and regions of Nepal
Holy basilOcimum tenuiflorum
A fragrant herb central to Hindu worship and Southeast Asian cooking
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 6 more · Herb or useful flower
Brown mustardBrassica juncea
A leafy mustard plant grown for greens, seeds, and oil across Asia and beyond
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
StelleraStellera chamaejasme
A poisonous alpine flower of Central and East Asia, grown for its showy heads
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Wildflower
Yellow Himalayan fritillaryFritillaria cirrhosa
A rare Himalayan lily with bell-shaped, checkered flowers and prized medicinal bulbs
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Wildflower
Bergenia
A hardy perennial with large leaves and clusters of pink flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
BrahmakamalSaussurea obvallata
A Himalayan alpine flower with papery bracts, sacred in Indian hill temples
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Wildflower
BalsamImpatiens balsamina
The old-fashioned annual whose ripe seed pods burst at a touch
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tihar: Sreekumar K. S., CC BY 2.0, source
- Brown mustard: Unoldy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stellera: Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0, source
- Yellow Himalayan fritillary: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Holy basil: Shashidhara halady, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bergenia: Christian Hummert ( Ixitixel ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brahmakamal: Schwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Annapurna Conservation Area: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Balsam: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source