Magnolia is one of the most beautiful flowers that can be found. Most species of the flower can be found in South America. Many different hybrids of the Magnolia and different species are planted as trees – which bloom forth flowers in the spring.
Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree. It is native to Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world. The name derives from French clou, a nail, as the buds vaguely resemble small irregular nails in shape. The clove tree is an evergreen which grows to a height ranging from 10-20 m, having large oval leaves and crimson flowers in numerous groups of terminal clusters.
Beer is more often then not made up of a flower called hops. Hops flavour the beer and are used as a stabality agent. Hops is also sometimes used in herbal medicine. Hops is used in beer for many reasons; the flower gives it a bitterness that helps it to balance the sweetness of the malt that is in it, it gives beer a special aroma that makes it appealing, and it holds an antibiotic effect that helps with the activity of the yeast in the beer.
The Hyacinth plants are bulbous herbs. Hyacinths are native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan. They are named after the Hyacinth from Greek mythology.
Hyacinths are sometimes associated with rebirth. The Hyacinth flower is used in the Haftseen table setting for the Persian New Year celebration Norouz held during the Spring Equinox. The prophet Mohammad is reported to have said “If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.”
The morning glory flowers are funnel-shaped flowers, which open at morning time, allowing them to be pollinated by hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and other daytime insects and birds. When dusk falls they are pollinated by the hawkmoth. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon.
The large, bell-shaped or lily-like flowers of the amaryllis and its hybrids make excellent garden subjects and pot plants. They can be grown as garden plants from Macon southward in Georgia. In these areas, they are used in beds, borders and for specimen plants. In north Georgia, they make excellent pot plants and spring and summer garden plants. When used as individual specimens, in mass plantings, as part of perennial borders or as low plantings in front of shrub borders, amaryllis provide spectacular flower effects.
There are 15 different species of Death Camas, all of which are located in North America. Most of these species survive in moist mountain valleys or sandy hills and plains. Death Camas might be a beautiful looking flower, but it is poisonous to sheep, cattle, pigs, and humans.
What makes this plant poisonous is the steroidal alkaloids, which have potent hypotensive activity commonly found in Veratrum, a false hellebore. The bulb and the mature leaves are the most toxic part of the plant itself.
To me one of the most beautiful and most unusual flowers that I have seen are Lupins. It is a beautiful thing to drive by a field that has nothing but purple colors from these flowers. They are unusual and I have only seen them up north.