Today's Flowers

Thanks to Mr. Luiz Santilli for inviting me to be a guest friend on Today’s Flowers site. I am also thankful to Denise, Sandy and Laerte of his team for this beautiful meme. I am very glad and honored to be a part of this friendly meme, full of plants and flowers .

Sarracenia spp.











Sarracenia és un gènere de plantes amb flors que comprèn de 8 a 11 espècies de plantes carnívores natives d'Amèrica del Nord. El gènere pertany a la família Sarraceniaceae, que també conté els gèneres Darlingtonia i Heliamphora.
Sarracenia són plantes carnívores indígenes de l'est de Texas, àrea dels Grans Llacs i sud-est del Canadà, amb la majoria creixent al sud-est dels Estats Units (només S. purpurea neix en regions amb temperatures temperades). Les fulles de les plantes formen un túnel per atrapar insectes i produeixen enzims per digerir la seva presa. Els insectes són atrets per la secreció de nèctar i una combinació d'olors i colors.

Sarracenia is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera Darlingtonia and Heliamphora.
Sarracenia is a genus of carnivorous plants indigenous to the eastern seaboard, Texas, the Great Lakes area and southeastern Canada, with most species occurring only in the south-east United States (only S. purpurea occurs in cold-temperate regions). The plant's leaves have evolved into a funnel in order to trap insects, digesting their prey with proteases and other enzymes.
The insects are attracted by a nectar-like secretion on the lip of pitchers, as well as a combination of color and scent. Slippery footing at the pitchers' rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant as a nutrient source.


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Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Alba'






Saxifraga 'Southside Star'


Lilium spp. Collection
















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Nimphaea spp.




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Palm House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London




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Chionanthus retusus






El Chionanthus retusus és un arbre de flors pertanyent al gènere Chionanthus nadiu de l'est d'Àsia, al centre i est de la Xina, Corea, i el Japó.
És un arbre de mida petita a mitjà que arriba als 20 metres d'alçada amb l'escorça fissurada. Les fulles són de 3-12 cm de longitud i 2-6,5 cm d'ample, simple ovat a oblongo-líptic amb borrissol i un pecíol de 5-20 mm de longitud. Les flors són de color blanc i es produeixen en panícules de 3-12 cm de llarg. El fruit és una drupa de color blau-negrós de 1-1,5 cm de llarg i 0,6-1 cm de diàmetre.
Es cultiva a Europa i Amèrica del Nord com a planta ornamental, valorada pels seus caps florals de color blanc.

Chionanthus retusus (Chinese Fringetree) is a species of Chionanthus native to eastern Asia, in eastern and central China, Korea, and Japan.
It is a deciduous small to medium-sized tree growing to 20 m in height, with thick, fissured bark. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 2–6.5 cm broad, simple ovate to oblong-elliptic, with a hairy, 0.5–2 cm long petiole. The flowers are white, produced in panicles 3–12 cm long. The fruit is a blue-black drupe 1–1.5 cm long and 0.6–1 cm diameter.
It is cultivated in Europe and North America as an ornamental tree, valued for its feathery white flowerheads.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew


Estany - Pond, Invernacle - Palm House


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