4026. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: The Peacock flower. Use tv mode.

REFERENCE:
https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2018/03/favourite-nectaring-plants-16.html

The flowers are borne on terminal clusters of about 20-30cm tall. Each flower is bowl shaped, 2-3" across, with five crinkled, unequal red and orange petals, and ten prominent bright red stamens that extend way beyond the corolla. There is one modified petal which is smaller than the other 4 petals. The typical orange-yellow flower hybrid is the most common one cultivated in parks and gardens. However, there are other hybrids which feature all-yellow, pink-white and all-red flowers.

 

 

The fruits are oblong, with thin flat pods of up to 10 cm long and look like Snow Peas. The pods are light green when immature, turning to a dark brown when ripened. Each pod contains 8-10 flattened dark brown to black seeds which are ejected as the pod splits open at maturity.

 

UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2025/08/4026-photography-tips-peacock-flower.html