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Identification of a purple flower
It closely looks like Tibouchina urvilleana* or any other Tibouchina species. You can have a look here.
[Source:Wikimedia common]
Tibouchina urvilleana is a species of flowering plant in the ...
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Why do pink rain lilies flower only after rains, and not from being watered?
It looks like sustained or consistent moisture might be (at least part of) the phenological cue for flowering:
The wikipedia article mentions that consistent humidity will induce flowering in at ...
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Identify This Plant (Flower)
This is a Gerbera, which belongs to the daisy family (Asteraceae). Compare:
There are various species.
The domesticated cultivars are mostly a result of a cross between Gerbera jamesonii and ...
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What kind of purple flower is this?
That looks like it could be a cultivar of Geranium sanguineum (Bloody crane's-bill or Bloody geranium) or something closely related.
Image source: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, ...
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Identify this roadside plant in Montserrat, Spain
This plant is in the genus Euphorbia, which is a large and diverse group. The members take wildly different forms, but the general form of this plant is shared by many Euphorbia members. I'm not ...
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Alpine flower identification — Italy/France
This is not Jasione montana, but Phyteuma orbiculare, another member of the family Campanulaceae. Except for the different flowers,
Jasione has no leaves on the upper part of the stem. This plant has. ...
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What is the name of this flowering plant?
It looks like a variety of canna lily. There are several flowers that have opened on the tip of your plant, as in the photo below.
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What plant is this, seen at the Allan Gardens?
This is a Schizanthus "orchid" (actually not a real orchid) called Schizanthus pinnatus ("butterfly orchid" or "poor man's orchid").
It is native to Chile but the plants are also cultivated as ...
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Why do we find flowers attractive?
Sure, flowers can be sign that the fruit is underway as @JonathanMoore said and viewing any trait as a result of selection is probably what the OP was waiting for. Thinking that if an organism ...
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Why do pink rain lilies flower only after rains, and not from being watered?
It's a nice question, I've tried looking for research papers to no avail. But I will add a few things that I hope will help:
Firstly, tap water's composition is quite different from rain water- two ...
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Any idea what this red plant is?
We called those "Indian strawberries". They are also known as Mock Strawberry (Duchesnea indica). Survivalists are pretty familiar with this plant.
They are a lot like strawberries in appearance, but ...
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What kind of flower is this?
I think it is Anemone hupehensis. We have this species in our garden, and the seeds and dead leaves look very similar to the ones in your picture. The leaves are large,jagged and palmate and they have ...
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Alpine flower identification — Italy/France
I think the correct answer is @RHA's answer. I will leave my answer just for future reference and discussion.
Could it be Jasione montana?
Sheep's bit scabious, Jasione montana, is a low-growing ...
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What flower is this? (Dolomites, Italy)
I had a look at white-flowered plants flowering in July in a site about the flora of the French Alps, and the best I could find was Parnassia palustris:
http://www.florealpes.com/fiche_parnassie.php
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Can anyone identify these flowers?
The sign agrees. They are petunias. The specific variety of the red ones is raspberry swirl. I don't know the specific variety of the purple ones.
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What are these structures inside a cut open Allamanda blanchetti?
The third photo gets to the heart of the matter. Here's an enlargement:
The gold-colored areas are the anthers of some of the stamens, the filaments of which are fused with the tissue of the petal. (...
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Can anyone id this flower
This is Kleinia, a genus from Asteraceae family. It is a succulent native to Africa.
I found a number of possible candidates, there may be more:
Kleinia abyssinica
Kleinia fulgens
Kleinia ...
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ID of this flower/plant and origin if possible
Look like a Spider lily (Lycoris radiata):
Source: NC State University
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What did Darwin mean by "degraded flowers"?
Perfect flowers have both male and female parts.
"Degraded" isn't used anymore - just "imperfect".
"A bisexual (or “perfect”) flower has both stamens and carpels, and a unisexual (or “imperfect”) ...
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Tree identification
This appears to be a flower of a tree in the Syzygium genus.
Because there are many species (1200+) -- many which are intentionally planted as ornamentals outside of their native range or have the ...
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Is there any relation between phyllotaxis and the Fibonacci sequence?
The claim that "all flowers have a number of petals that is related to the Fibonacci sequence" is simply false. Many flowers have other numbers of petals.
Consider, for example, dogwoods, ...
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Seed head Identification. July in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Looks to me like an allium, but you'll find many of these look quite similar at this stage, I doubt you can get much further than that. See for example a Google image search for allium+flower+seeds (...
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Identifying three species of Datura
Okay, so as far as the blue and white flower goes I'm pretty sure it's a cultivar of ipomoea called Flying Saucer which is a hybrid of heavenly blue (I. tricolor) and Pearly gates (also I. tricolor) ...
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What is this yellow-pink flower?
It resembles Lantana Camara, from the family of Verbenaceae that is native to American tropics according to Wikipedia.
They come in variety of different colors, and the one you have photographed is ...
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What causes plants in the prunus genus to reach anthesis?
Here’s how it works. Every morning when the sun breaks over the horizon — no matter what time of year it is — a clock starts ticking inside the trees. After a specific number of hours, the plants’ ...
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Strange yellow flower in shrub Species ID
Looks like a type of legume called a senna, though I do not know for certain which species -- see below for a pretty good guess!
Things that stand out about your specimen: most prominent are the erect/...
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