More flowers I saw in Jacksonville. The ones on this page are primarily shades of red or orange.
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Gloriosa lily: The stamen appear to be outside the petals because the petals actually bend downward away from the center of the flower even though it looks like they are curved upward. (June 2, 2015)
[A purple-red flower with multiple petals curled into a globe shape. The stamen are spread out below the petals. The petals are a light green color at the base.]

These are close views of a different type of Gloriosa lily. The one on the left is a newer bloom and thus does not yet have its full color. (October 9, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a bloom with its stamen below the petals. The petals are mostly light green with red-tipped ends and are wavy along the edges. The rippled edges make the petals appear to be twirled as they extend from the center. On the right is a more mature bloom. The stamen extend horizontally from the center instead of downward. The petals are yellow with bright red upper ends. The petals also appear to be wider and longer than the bloom on the left.]

The entire Gloriosa lily plant including the green pods which are blooms which have not yet opened (October 9, 2020)
[The leaves are more than a foot long and relatively narrow as they extend from a wider base to a pointed tip. There are nearly two dozen flowers in various stages of blooming on the plant. The bloom closest to the camera is the fully bloomed one from the prior set of photos and thus has the most yellow and red color. Other spent blooms have all red petals. Some blooms are still in their fully green stage completely closed and hanging from the branches like green triangular pods.]

Two sections of the same painted leaf plant commonly known as a wild pointsetta (The red color does not extend to the full leaf like it does with a pointsetta plant.) (December 11, 2018)
[Two photos spliced together. Both photos are top down views of a flower section of plant. The leaves are medium green but around the flower section the inner part of the leaf is red orange in a petal shape. The color extends less than one-third of the length of the leaf but ends in a point just like a petal might. At the center of the bloom are green bulb-like things.]

This wild pointsetta looks faded. (August 22, 2020)
[Looking down on two different plants in the same image. The top plant has only the faintest tinge of red in the center of the top leaves. The plant on the bottom has well-marked light red sections in the section of the leaves closest to the center of the plant. The leaves are irregular in shape as if someone took bites out of the edges of an oval leaf.]

A close view of the center of a wild pointsetta (September 5, 2020)
[Looking down from the top left side of the plant to see the center sets of green bulbs with little white stamen sticking out. There are five leaves emanating from the center and four of the five have a bit of red close to the center.]

A pointsetta plant growing in someone's yard. It was about 3.5-4 foot high. (November 29, 2020)
[View from the sides of the entire plant which is nearly four foot high. It has quite a few red leaves which gives the appearance of having more than a dozen flowers on the plant.]

Hibiscus bud closed (October 8, 2015) and one fully open (June 25, 2015)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a side view of the closed red flower. The stamen sticks out from the bud by more than an inch. On the right is a red flower with five large petals and a two-part stamen which is mostly yellow except for the innermost red part which projects further from the petals than the yellow part.]

Indian blanket blooming (August 16, 2015) and after the petals fell off (August 16, 2015).
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is one bloom. Each of the eight petals on this flower are yellow at the tips, pink in the middle, and red at the innermost part. The center of the flower is a puffy yellow-green ball. On the right are just the center balls attached to the stem. They are mostly green with reddish tips.]

Another type of Indian blanket flower (May 8, 2018)
[Each of the eight petals on this flower are yellow at the tips, and red in the middle and at the innermost parts of the petals. The center of the flower is yellow at the center and brown around the rim with a few yellow spots. The end of the petals are deeply notched so that each petal has three tips. ]

Trumpet creeper wildflowers (August 13, 2015) and a blooming creeper (August 14, 2015)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a side view of three orange flower buds stick out from the end of the branch. They are tube-shaped and tightly closed in this image. On the right is a straight on view of one bud fully opened displaying yellow stamen in the center. It is shaped like a trumpet so its more cupped at the end rather than having individual petals.]

Small red morning glory (October 31, 2015) and a close view of some blooms (November 18, 2016) (Small is part of the official name.)
[Two photos spliced together. The photo on the left is a grouping of blooms atop a fence. These flowers are similar in shape to the trumpets except the ends are more cupped than curled open. There is one flower at the end of each stem and this image has more than a dozen red blooms on it. There is a yellow center which protrudes from the bloom. Photo on the right is two fully-opened blooms facing the sun. Each bloom has what appears to be a three-part stamen with thick cream-colored tips.]

These tiny flowers were the only ones of their kind where I saw them. (March 24, 2019)
[Two seven-petal red flowers. One is fully open with the other has some of its petals curled. In the center are long purple-pink stamen. ]

I think these are a variant of tecoma. (April 23, 2021)
[Six blooms atop a stem with three facing to the right and the other three facing left. Only four of the six are full opened. The flowers are a tubular shape with petals opening away from the center. There are thin purple-tipped stamen sticking out of the top of the center. ]

I do not yet know what these are. (August 22, 2021)
[This bushy plant has multiple thick stems with lots of green leaves. At the tops of each stem are a ball of orange blooms. ]

A closer view of the blooms of the prior plant. (August 22, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top view of a grouping of completely closed flower buds. There is probably about two dozen thin orange spikes topped by a thicker section. This entire grouping is cupped by four leaves. On the right is a grouping of fully open blooms. Each flower has both light and dark orange sections, but in different places on each four-petal bloom. ]

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