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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

King's Crown - Wordless Wednesday






Scientific name: Justica carnea
Common name: King's Crown, Brazilian Plume Flower, Flamingo Flower, Jacobinia
Family: Acanthaceae
Native plant of : South America
Photographs taken by Autumn Belle at The Secret Garden of 1-Utama
Grateful thanks to Dr. Francis Ng of The Secret Garden of 1-Utama.
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My post today is dedicated to Bernie from North-eastern Australia of My Dry Tropics Garden blog. Thank you for being the first commenter of my previous post on the Powder-puff Girls. Her blog is about the drought, heat and sun tolerant plants that she grows in her dry, tropics garden in the bushland of north-eastern Australia.

30 comments:

  1. another nice flower out here! thanks for sharing and the visit!
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  2. Beautiful flower! I also noticed the plant on the left side of King's crown. Is that bird's nest fern? Looks very lush and nice.

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  3. Hello I've just come over from Today's Flowers what wonderful exotic photographs you have posted.

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  4. Wow! What a beautiful blog you have here!
    Thank you for commenting my blog!
    Im lucky you did, so I could find you.......

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  5. I am so excited to see this picture of the flower! I have this plant and a bud if forming. I posted a picture of it on my blog a week ago, A Giraffe in the Garden. Thank you for sharing this beauty. I can't wait for mine to bloom!

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  6. What a lovely flower. The leaves are just huge. Thank you for sharing :-)

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  7. Thank you for educating us about yet another beautiful plant and sharing its lovely flower. :)

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  8. Years ago I used to grow this as a houseplant. They were very impressive little crowns. Mine were an orangey red colour.

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  9. What a beautiful fluff! And funny too!

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  10. Wow! an other world! a very beautiful flower, with an interesting name!Happy WW!

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  11. Hi, everyone! Thank you very much for the nice comments which is a great start to my day.

    Euroangel, I'll follow you from my city daily photo blog to match your travel blogs.

    Ami, yes, that's a bird's nest fern. I have 2 baby bird's nest ferns in my garden, brought in by the birds.

    Rosie, I can imagine how beautiful the King's crowns will look in your garden.

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  12. This is a beautiful flower! i always enjoy seeing your tropical plants. Many of them are unfamiliar to me. Thanks !

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  13. Wow, Autumn what a gorgeous bloom. Looks like a beautiful dahlia gone array.

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  14. I think the common name Flamingo Flower suits this bloom very well!

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  15. This is one of my favorite flowers! So pretty.

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  16. Haven't seen this yet also! The leaves resemble that of the Pachystachys lutea or candle flower. Are they flowering much, or less compared to leaves?

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  17. How beautiful--thank you for sharing your world :)

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  18. Very beautiful plant! Too bad it wouldn't grow here in Alaska.
    You have a very lovely blog.:)t

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  19. I like this flower very much. It's nice to just look at the bloom and imagine it to be a King's crown.

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  20. what a beautiful flower. And never seen before. I also liked the blog my dry tropics garden. Thanks

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  21. Wonderful flower! Beautiful series!

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  22. Nice flower - I like the spherical shape. It is also interesting to see it set against the nearby leaves, such a contrast.

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  23. Thank you very much for the visits nice comments which I appreciate very much.

    Andrea, the real flowers are very pretty. At the time when I took the photos, there were more foliage than flowers. It can be grown grouped together as a ground cover. The plant is quite short.

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  24. a really pretty bloom. I love these flowers with the long thin, fringy petals. Thanks for the info!

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  25. That is a gorgeous flower. I will have to look for some. Thanks.

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  26. thanks for the visit and following my blogs..happy Mothers Day too! take care!

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  27. Beautiful flower and nice pictures!

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  28. maybe if it has a yellowish color it can really look like a crown from a far

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  29. Thanks for sharing this lovely flower, haven't seen this plant before!

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