The most distinctive features of P. elata are its red bracts, a modified set of leaves. Before its flowers bloom, the bracts resemble a pair of human lips.
Conophytum pageae, sometimes nicknamed the Lips plant or the Button plant, is a succulent perennial plant that is native to the Cape Province regions of South Africa.
Affectionately, Psychotria elata is called Hooker's Lips or the Hot Lips Plants. The plant has apparently evolved into its current shape to attract pollinators including hummingbirds and butterflies.
Salvia Hot Lips – Salvia jamensis is a great salvia to grow with a very memorable name! A very popular variety for the last ten years or so with masses of eye catching flowers in red and white. The foliage has a wonderful scent of blackcurrants too.
Shrubby salvia similar to the popular Salvia 'Hot Lips' with flowers that are bicoloured in the height of summer and are either all pink or all white early and late in the season.
Sage 'Hot Lips', Salvia x jamensis 'Hot Lips', Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' Noted for its pretty bicolor flowers, Salvia 'Hot Lips' is an evergreen perennial that will reward you with a profusion of eye-catching, brilliant red and white flowers from early summer to frost.
A bilabiate (means "two-lipped") corolla is a zygomorphic, sympetalous corolla with the limb divided into two lips. Lamiaceae (the mint family) typically have bilabiate corollas. This photo shows a front view and a longitudinal section of a flower of Lamium purpureum.
So-called because of its uncanny resemblance to a heavily made-up mouth wearing lipstick, Hooker's Lips is a shrub native to rainforests of Central and South America. It can grow more than three metres tall and its bright red lips grow to attract pollinators.
A common characteristic of orchids in general is the basic form of the flower, which consists of three petals, one of which has developed into a lip, surrounded by three sepals.
Lipstick Plant is a tropical epiphyte that is a popular and striking houseplant with ts bright red tubular flowers. Its name comes from the Greek word auschune, meaning shame, anthos, meaning flower, and radicans meaning having rotting stems.
Tulips (Two Lips) For Lovers Flower Bouquet in Santa Monica CA - Edelweiss Flower Boutique & Flower Delivery Local Florist.
Lantana Produces Two-Tone Colorful Blooms
Available in white, yellow, orange, pink and red, the flowers of the lantana often appear two-tone as they open from buds of different hues.
The petals of a red, red rose are first cut into the shape of a “Cupid's bow.” With the aid of a lipstick, the rose petal lips are applied to the real lips.
THE ORIGINS OF THE KISS-ME-QUICK FLOWER
The Kiss-Me-Quick flower is also known as pink purslane and (and less pleasantly, hairy pigweed). It is considered a succulent and is characterized by its pink flowers and linear leaves.
The dragon's-mouth orchid is a perennial plant with a small corm and a single grasslike leaf. It produces a solitary reddish pink flower with three erect sepals and a purplish-blotched lip that curves downward.
Famous as a charming ornamental plant, the Moon Orchid has 3 to 4 strands of pseudo wide petals, the color is pure white, there is a canopy or yellow flower headpiece with a hint of purplish in the middle. Its charming shape can fascinate anyone.
Blue. The rarest of the orchids and that most difficult to attain, therefore said to embody rarity, is the simply beautiful, blue orchid. As these flowers are difficult to find, you may often see blue orchids which contain dye to maintain their striking colour.
The scientific name Commelina was chosen based on the Asiatic dayflower. Linnaeus picked the name in honour of the Dutch botanists Jan and Caspar Commelijn, using the two large showy petals of Commelina communis to symbolise them.
The Middlemist Red is considered the rarest flower in the world. It is found in London and New Zealand, with only one specimen in each location. It used to be native to Asia but is now extinct on the continent. John Middlemist was responsible for bringing the flower to London in 1804.
The pink to white bell-like flowers are nodding and are born in pairs on short, thin Y-shaped stalks, seldom exceeding six inches in height, hence the common name “twinflower”. The flowers are highly fragrant and last about seven days, typically appearing in June or July.
It is most notable for its distinctly shaped red bracts and is consequently nicknamed “Hot Lips”. Though the bright red bracts are considered its most flashy feature, they are not the actual flowers of the plant but instead extravagant leaves; the flowers of Palicourea elata lie within the “red lip” leaves.
'Hot Lips' is a member of the salvia genus, which is also known as ornamental sage and is prized for its extensive blooming periods and vibrant colour palette.
Diviner's sage (S. divinorum), known colloquially as salvia, is a hallucinogenic plant native to Mexico.
Did you know that blue is the rarest flower color? Brandon George, graduate student in Public Garden Leadership at Cornell University, takes an in-depth talk on the color blue, why it is so rare in the plant world, and some tips for displaying it in a garden.