Lilium polyphyllum – rarest of rare lilies.
The Middlemist's Red camellia is considered the rarest flower in the world. Only two known examples are believed to exist, one in New Zealand and another one in England.
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.
The Rafflesia banaoana is the rarest and most elusive species of the genus named after Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. The flowers are found only in the deep rainforests of Luzon island in the Philippines.
Loved for its many colors and popular scent, roses make beautiful cut flowers for any occasion. The rarest color of rose is the Blue Rose, and it is very difficult to find.
While black roses do not truly exist in mother nature, their symbolism very much does in culture and everyday life. Many times, black roses are actually exquisite tones of deep red, maroon or purple blooms. To achieve a darker black hue, florists will typically dye, spray, dip or even burn their flowers.
Rainbow Roses are also known as Happy Roses or Kaleidoscope Roses. These blooms may look like they were plucked out of a story book, but trust us when we say they're 100% real. These unique blooms boast vibrant and brightly coloured petals, making them the life of the party or centre of attention anywhere you put them.
Purple roses are quite rare not only in the garden, but also as a bouquet. Perhaps this also explains their unique meaning: the flowers still exaggerate the statement of a red rose and stand for great admiration, love at first sight and for the fact that one is downright enchanted by their counterpart.
The Kadupul Flower is at the top of our list, even though it has never been sold for more than the other flowers in the list. The simple reason why the Kadupul Flower is the champion of the most expensive flowers in the world list is: it is completely priceless. No amount of money could ever buy this flower.
Grandmothers and grandfathers with a green thumb might remember it: the Scabiosa. A special flower, which until recently, had been forgotten. The Scabiosa, also known as 'pincushion flower', was grown from seed, had medium size flowers with a delicate stem and grew mostly in blue tones.
A blue rose is a flower of the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white, or yellow. Blue roses are often used to symbolize mystery or attaining the impossible. However, because of genetic limitations, they do not exist in nature.
Events in the genome of Welwitschia have given it the ability to survive in an unforgiving desert for thousands of years.
The White Bat Plant is one of the world's largest and most unusual flowers. It's strange little black flowers come in clusters of twenty to forty and resemble bats' faces while the white bracts above resemble bats' ears.
A rep for the company explains, "The roses are placed in a unique — secret — substance, which is a combination of water and various dyes. The roses slowly absorb the dyed water the same way as they would naturally absorb water.
Well, I would, for starters. I would love to have such roses in my garden. Blue is the only colour that roses lack.
Each rose is carefully dipped in beeswax. The roses are then arranged along with gypsophila to bring all that beauty together perfectly. Spoil somebody special for their birthday, anniversary, send a message of congratulations, or celebrate any other happy occasion with this unique rose bouquet.
A few pale green varieties of roses do exist, but none match the distinctiveness of the incomparable "China" green rose. Green hued roses have historically represented fertility, growth and nature's abundance. They also represented bounty, goodwill, success in business and romantic relationships and even jealousy.
Orange roses cannot be found in nature, since they are the product of decades of crossbreeding red roses and yellow roses. Such process has led to the creation of dozens of orange rose varieties. The orange roses meaning changes depending on the intensity of the hues they display.
Horticulturally speaking, pink roses are a classic. They were the first color rose cultivated, since pink roses are most common in the wild.
The black rose is an extremely rare color but offers unrivaled beauty. Black roses aren't exactly black. Instead, black roses derive their color from intense shades of purple or red rather than pure black.
The Diamond Wedding Rose is a fragrant Hybrid Tea rose with shapely, large, white blooms with a wonderfully strong, sweet fragrance on upright healthy growth, which repeat blooms from June to late autumn.
Delphiniums (Delphinium spp.) produce naturally blue flowers thanks to the plant pigment delphinidin. This is the substance Suntory used to create its blue rose. Irises are more commonly lavender or purple, but where there is purple, breeders can push the flowers toward a blue-purple.