Tiger claws (Erythrina variegata)
@allknowing (153529)
India
August 10, 2023 11:13pm CST
Yet another flower that loves the rain. It stays dormant throughout the year and shows up at the first shower slowly growing into a full vine with flowers all over the garden.
It is a flower that one sees in jungles but I have given it a pride of place and that orange colour that I see at random spots in the garden brightens up my day.
What wild flowers do you like or you have in your garden?
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@MarieCoyle (59258)
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11 Aug 23
Oh, that's really beautiful. I love the colors in it.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Aug 23
It is the favourite of the caterpillars and I have to keep a look out for them.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Aug 23
@MarieCoyle It has done that here. The leaves of this vine have moisture in them.
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@MarieCoyle (59258)
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11 Aug 23
@allknowing
I know what you mean. A hungry caterpillar can eat an entire plant in a day.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Aug 23
I had bought a pack of seeds of the wild flowers from the US but none survived.
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@jstory07 (148749)
• Roseburg, Oregon
11 Aug 23
@allknowing That's sad. Maybe the seeds were old.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Aug 23
This stanza from the poem 'Elegy written in a country churchyard' by Thomas Gray comes to mind
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air".
But I did not let that happen with this flower
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
11 Aug 23
That is a pretty flower. I like exotic flowers most but don't keep a garden or any indoors (because I don't want to risk my cat getting sick or dying).
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Aug 23
We have had cats and a garden for years and no cat has dyed because of it
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
12 Aug 23
@allknowing Yes, but some plants are toxic to cats, so I don't want to chance it. I have even found some toxic plants that are alleged to not be toxic.
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@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
11 Aug 23
This is a beautiful and special flower.
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