Nice Flowers Pictures And Names photos

Cockscomb

Image by Himanshu Sarpotdar
Common name: Cockscomb, Lalmurga लाल मुर्ग़ा (Hindi), Haolei (Manipuri), Kozhi poo கோழிப்பூ (Tamil)

Botanical name: Celosia argentea var. cristata (syn. Celosia cristata)
- [ (se-LO-see-uh) or (kay-LO-see-uh) from the Greek kelos, meaning dry, burnt; referring to its color; (ar-JEN-tee-uh) meaning silvery ]
Family: Amaranthaceae (amaranth family)

Origin: Americas, Africa, or Asia

Unnamed yellow flower

Image by dragontoller
Can anyone put a name to this flower? Haven't had much luck identifying it.

AndersonGarden20091325

Image by stre@mz
Field Notes : beautiful spring bloom (2009). sorry don't know the name of the flower.... On 1st May 09 I was shooting all afternoon in Anderson Japanese Garden , Rockford IL.

Best viewed in large format

Tech Notes : used my 18-200 VR Nikkor .. yes I had to be very close to the subject.... I do not remember but I guess I used VR on to reduce the hand-shake,

please post your comments and critique .... constructive comments would be highly appreciated.....

thanks
streamz

Ixora Pink

Image by Himanshu Sarpotdar
Common name: Ixora, Jungle geranium, Rugmini रुगमिनी (Hindi), Vedchi (Tamil), Rangan (Bengali), Chethi (Malayalam)
Botanical name: Ixora coccinea

Bog Aspodel

Image by gingiber
Bog Aspodel
Narthecium ossifragum

Gaelic name: Bliochan