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Common name: Peacock Anemone
Botanical name: Anemone pavonina Family: Ranunculaceae (buttercup family)
This scarlet flower often has a white or yellowish center.
This plant grows from seed which germinates in the cool of the autumn and
then quickly develop a few leaves and a small tuber. Like many plants from the
Mediterranean region, anemones die down and rest during the summer. In the
following autumn, fresh leaves appear followed by further foliage and the
first flower buds, usually in February or March. Flowering stems can reach
30-45cms and new buds can continue to open well into April. Leaf, as if
twice cut into narrow segments. Flowers large, 4-8 cms across, without green
sepals, which distinguishes it clearly from the Persian Buttercup.
petals, in many different flower colours of lavender, lilac, deep purple, red
to scarlet, rose-pink, magneta, and more rarely white, blue or in many and
various intermediate shades, sometimes two-coloured, with a white or pale
base; even the white have a circle of white in the area near the stamens.
| Photographed in Garden of Five
Senses, Delhi |
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