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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Unknown Autumn Flower


I have no idea what this Autumn flower may be.
All I know is I rather like it, in spite of the little bugs that seem to be busy wandering the petals!
This flower was photographed in a garden at Moorabbin, an inner suburb of Melbourne.


bold autumn flower
reaching for mellow sun's warmth
with arms open wide


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9 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

what a dramatic flower!

Karen said...

How exotic!

fredamans said...

I would think a type of Hibiscus.

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

It's lovely...I wouldn't have thought those were bugs if you hadn't said so.

Judy said...

The centre sure looks like a hibiscus, but I haven't seen one with such narrow petals...
I love it, though, whatever it is!!!

Meta said...

vad det än är så är den vacker( kanske hibiskus)
Ha en fin vecka
Kram Meta

Anonymous said...

It looks like a hibiscus.

Unknown said...

Beautiful. I also think it's a hibiscus. I've seen it here at the Botanic Garden.

NatureFootstep said...

more people then me was thinking hibiscus. Might be one of them. Did you notice the nice shadow on the low petal?

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