Cashews on sticks?

*This* is a macro shot. Sort of a color version of an earlier post http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-02-13 except the textures are smoother here.

This is an hibiscus (yet again), but it’s a particular specimen that Rich pointed out to me. He’d been gone 10 days and returned to campus today. Walking through one of the greenhouses he passed by this and it [metaphorically] knocked him over. Perhaps I’ll post another image of this particular flower, but I had to post this image today.

Passed over—
» wider shots of this flower…
» new leaves erupting from the center of a Cycas revoluta (cycad)
» close-ups of the Cycas revoluta’s young leaves
» a shot of Salvia leucantha ‘Santa Barbara’, http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-03-20 with better lighting and color
» Justicia Brandegeanab, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Justicia_brandegeana&rank=binomial

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/taxpage/0/0/79/genus/Hibiscus.html

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“Common wax plant”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-04-02
2 years ago (“Reflecting: browns give way to greens”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-04-02
3 years ago (“Quiz time!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-04-02