Star Performance
by Blair Wainman
Title
Star Performance
Artist
Blair Wainman
Medium
Photograph - Print Photography
Description
Who would have thought, a Tropical Dogwood. Look these massive beautiful blooms.
Mussaenda is a rounded evergreen tropical shrub or sub-shrub that will grow to 10’ tall in tropical areas, but more likely will reach 2-5’ tall in containers. Clusters of small, tubular flowers with five large spreading lobes bloom in summer, however it is the large and colorful, ovate, leaf-like sepals (to 3” long) that provide the real ornamental display. Some individual flowers in each cluster will develop a single enlarged sepal. Elliptic to ovate, bright green leaves (to 6” long). Hybrids sold in commerce typically feature flowers in red and/or yellow with showy sepals of white, bright red or pink.
This one was photographed in the wild just outside of Capurganá, Chocó, Colombia.
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June 14th, 2014
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Comments (5)
Debra and Dave Vanderlaan
Great color drama Blair! We added our Like! Celebrate life, Debra and Dave
Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
Blair, I think this is the first time I've visited your site. I've been missing out on so many brilliant and fascinating works of yours. This is so gorgeous. Love the colors and view.LF