Embrace With Colors
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Embrace With Colors
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
I took these colorful cyclamen flower arrangement in Allan Garden Green house. I had no clue how to take this flower as I never able to see the center of the flower as it is always enclosed, like it was embraced by love and attention.
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The following description is made from Wikipedia - Online Encyclopedia
Cyclamen is a genus of 23 species of perennials growing from tubers, valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the Mediterranean Basin east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. It was traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae but recently has been reclassified in the family Myrsinaceae.
Each flower is on a stem coming from a growing point on the tuber. In all species, the stem is bent 150-180 in at the tip, so that the nose of the flower faces downwards. Flowers have 5 petals, bent outwards or up, sometimes twisted, and connected at the base into a cup, and five sepals behind the cup.
Petal shape varies depending on species, and sometimes within the same species. Cyclamen repandum has petals much longer than wide, Cyclamen coum has stubby, almost round petals, and Cyclamen hederifolium usually has petals with proportions between the two.
Petal color may be white, pink, or purple, often with darker color on the nose. Many species have a pink form and a white form, but a few have only one color, such as Cyclamen balearicum, which is always white.
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