A blog of the photographs of Michael Popp who resides in an area around Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Click on the pictures to make them larger.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Exotic Queens Tears Flower
It appears this plant is a Billbergia nutans or "Queen Tears". The flower is a rich array of colors (red, blue, green, purple, yellow). First a red stalk emerges from the center of the plant. Colorful "tear" shapes drop out of the stalk as the stalk leans parallel to the ground. The purple/blue/green tears then begin to open into three petal flowers. Each petal has a purple outer rim with a greenish center. This plant first bloomed for me right after I received it in November 2007. The bloom stalks started to appear in late November and the blooms began to emerge on December 3, 2009.
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