Flowers
Every flower, one page each: what it looks like, where it grows, when it blooms and what it means. 1,096 flowers so far, best known first.
Gardenia
A fragrant white-flowered shrub from tropical regions worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Fire star orchidEpidendrum radicans
A bright orange orchid that roots along its whole stem
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Orchid
Showy chalicevineSolandra grandiflora
A climbing nightshade of the tropics, grown for its big trumpet flowers
🇨🇺 Cuba · 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
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Gardenia: Queerbubbles, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fire star orchid: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Showy chalicevine: Neelix at English Wikipedia, Public domain, 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