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This bright orange red flower with long stamens is called Caesalpinia pulcherrima, or red bird of paradise, or Mexican bird of paradise, to name a few. It grows on a shrub and I photographed it last summer at the San Diego Zoo. It was making red seed pods in the middle of the blooms.
If you’re still experiencing a lot of snow, ice or gray where you are today, I thought you could enjoy a little ray of sunshine and some bold colors. And to make you feel better, we’d had two straight days of rain showers in San Diego so it’s not all sunny here. But I won’t complain, we’re having a severe drought and any raindrop counts. Happy Friday!
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What peculiar but pretty looking flowers. As for you having gray skies today, we’ve actually had blue skies and sunshine all day. Makes such a difference in my psyche. Of course, it’s still freezing. I think it’s about 12 degrees now.
These flowers are indeed very peculiar and their shape made it very hard to photograph them. I don’t even know if I gave them justice. I bet you feel it’s almost spring today, woohoo! Oh wait, groundhog dude said six more weeks of winter…
And I think he’s definitely right. Unfortunately.
Spectacular! I love the colour.
Thank you, I do too. The flowers almost look like flames.