It is a pretty plant, with gay red and orange flowers shaped something like violets. In South Africa, where it abounds, Boer farmers call it rooibloemetjie (little red flower) and vuurbossie ...
Some rather romantic botanists likened the flowers in shape to butterflies (and the flowers can thus be described as “papilionaceus”). John Nelson is a retired botanist from the herbarium at ...
The Bathukamma is a stunning stack of seasonal flowers, shaped like the Gopuram—the pyramidal tower found at temple entrances," explained Harikrishna Mamidi, director of the Department of ...