More flowers I saw in Jacksonville. The ones on this page and the next are primarily shades of red or orange.
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Rose (June 21, 2020)
[The multitude of red velvetly-looking petals face mostly to the right. In the center is section of yellow nubby-looking pieces. Beside this bloom is the stem of a bloom which has completely lost all of its petals.]

Firespike (September 15, 2019)
[This plant has large green leaves. At the top is a burst of red. Each bloom is a long conical red spike with four petals in a cup-like shape at the top. There are 10-15 spike blooms at top of the plant.]

A close view and a zoomed out view of a firespike plant (October 18 and 24, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of the very top of the plant. The red blooms are at the outer ends of the plant with the large leaves close to the center. The firespike is as its name would suggest a spike from which thin-tubed red flowers emanate. As the spike grows, the blooms at the bottom are the longest and most open while the ones at the top are the shortest which creates a red triangle shape for the spike of flowers. The image on the right is the entire plant which is about five foot tall and has at least ten spikes of flowers. The spikes are mostly located at the top, but there are also some at the outer edges of the sides.]

I'm not sure if these are seeds of the firespike plant, but they are a very interesting color addition to the plant. (November 21, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the flower spike extends from the left and a number of long-tubular flowers extend up and down from it. Along the spike itself are small red oblong things wrapped around a yellow spike protruding from it. The image on the right is a closer view of these red and yellow things growing on the spike. They do not appear to be future flowers.]

It seems like this plant had an offshoot of the main branch near the top which then had all these red buds bunched at the top of the offshoot. (December 12, 2021)
[A spike extends upward from the leaves and has a few long tubular red blooms coming off the right side. This spike has red stems with light-green tips. Near the top of this spike is another spike growing at an angle and also has red stems with light-green tips. At the top of this second spike is a grouping of nearly thirty red buds as if it were a multi-headed bloom.]

I hope to someday find the name of this bloom. (November 5, 2018)
[At the top of this plant is a column of red blooms. Below the flowers are a number of branches each full of oval-shaped leaves.]

Red bottlebrush plant (March 3, 2023)
[Hanging from a stem with long thin green leaves is an even longer cylindrical bloom with small red spikes emanating horizontally from its center around the entire cylinder. The spikes are approximately an inch long with ones at regular intervals being 1.5 inches long. The bloom resembles a brush one uses to clean a bottle.]

Dewdrops on a corkscrew ginger plant cone from which the flowers will later emerge. (June 26, 2022)
[One red-orange cone with several water droplets on it surrounded by green leaves. The cone has what appears to be tightly wrapped petals, but they are more colored leaves than petals. The flower will emerge from between these wrappings.]

Flowers of the corkscrew ginger plant (May 21 and 25, 2020)
[Two images spliced together. On the left is an orange cones with four flowers. Two of the flowers are beside each other upright on the back side of the cone. The flowers are the same bright orange color as the cones. One flower extending from the left side of the cone looks spent as it lies on the long dark green leaves. The flower coming from the right side is drooping, but still looks pretty full. On the right is a is an orange cone with two upright blooms comign from the right side. ]

The tip of the stamen is visible on the top bloom of this corkscrew ginger plant. (June 21, 2020)
[The prior two images were more of a top-down view of an orange cone with blooms, but this one is a close side view. There are two black ants crawling around the upper part of the cone. The bloom on the right hangs down the side of the cone and is losing its color as it becomes a white pink. The bloom on the left is orange and upright. The white tip of the stamen is visible in the center opening of the tube-shaped bloom. ]

Flowers of the corkscrew ginger plant (May 21 and 25, 2020)
[Two images spliced together. On the left is an orange cones with four flowers. Two of the flowers are beside each other upright on the back side of the cone. The flowers are the same bright orange color as the cones. One flower extending from the left side of the cone looks spent as it lies on the long dark green leaves. The flower coming from the right side is drooping, but still looks pretty full. On the right is a is an orange cone with two upright blooms comign from the right side. ]

Colorful gladiola blooms (April 29, 2023)
[Two images spliced together of two different views of the same two blooms. On the left he camera looks down into the center of the flowers. The front petals are all yellow. The rear petals are larger and are orange with yellow flecks. The stamen have white tips. On the right is a view of the outside of the top orange with yellow flecks petals. It like someone painted over the yellow petals with orange but missed some spots.]

Closer details of the stamen of a gladiola (May 2, 2023)
[The long white stamen is forked at the end into three sections which are think and a little fuzzy. The top part of the curve is covered by a petal partially folded down. Two other large red with yellow center petals are on either side of the folded down petal. At the bottom are three much smaller petals that are mostly yellow with some red at their tips.]

A time lapse of two gladiola spikes as they bloom and then the blooms fade (from left to right - May 2, May 5, and May 7, 2023)
[Three photos spliced together. On the far left image the front stalk only has the two lowest blooms starting to show. The stalk on the right has all seven flowers fully open and showing their red-yellow glory. In the middle image the bottom five flowers on the left are open while the sixth is starting to open and the seventh is still a dark red bud. The flowers on the right stalk are mostly dried although the top one still has some color. The right-most image has seven blooms on the left stalk fully open and all blooms on the right stalk are dried up.]

And time continues on these two gladiola spikes as the blooms fade (May 11, 2023 on the left and May 16, 2023 on the right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left image the front stalk only has the top two blooms still red-yellow. The stalk on the right has all seven blooms spent and droopy. They are a darker red. The image on the right has all blooms spent on both stalks and the right-most stalk doesn't doesn't even have droopy red remnants. The left stalk has some droopy red remnants.]

This plant's flower is unusual enough I should eventually be able to find the name for it. (August 22, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a view of the entire plant with its clumps of orange flowers. On the right is a close view of two blooms. The two blooms are like mirror images of each other. The petals seem to only be on three sides with a flat section of each bloom which is near the flat section of the other bloom. It's as if they are two sections of the same flower, but they definitely are growing separately. ]

Impressively long stamen on this flower (October 2, 2023)
[Poking through a chain-link fence is a flower which appears to have many red blooms in a sphere facing outward from the center. The stamen from each bloom are at least three inches long. This bloom is above the bottom wooden rail, so it is free to be spherical through the openings in the fence. ]

Here are more blooms of the same type of plant. (October 2, 2023)
[Two of these red blooms are coming from below the wooden bar while one is barely above it poking through the chain link fence. This view is further from the blooms than the prior one so only the stamen of the nearest plant are visible.]

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