The sub-umbellate inflorescences are borne at the end of long stems, having numerous bright red flowers, which are radially symmetric with inferior ovaries.

It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

The flowers are pure pale blue, 15 – 25 mm diameter, with five petals ; they can also be bright red.

Plants in this genus have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, peltate ( shield-shaped ) leaves with the petiole in the centre.

It has silvery, deeply-lobed leaves and a profusion of small, bright yellow flowers on long trailing stalks.

Rhododendron ' President Roosevelt ' is a popular cultivar of Rhododendron with striking variegated leaves and trusses of bright red flowers that fade to white in the centre.

Tradition has it that the padres sprinkled mustard seeds along the trail in order to mark it with bright yellow flowers.

Inflorescence in raceme, with bright yellow to red or pink bilateral and hermaphodite, hypogynous and ebracteate flowers.

This is a form from Bega in New South Wales that has bright red flowers.

The flowers can be white, pink, or purple, but are most commonly bright blue, with three petals and six yellow anthers.

Tradition has it that the padres sprinkled the mustard seeds along the trail in order to mark it with bright yellow flowers.

Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two to three inches long ; calyx pale yellow, hairy, deeply seven to nine-lobed ; stamens seven to nine ; anthers bright yellow.

Pistillate flowers on short spikes ; peduncles green, stout, hairy ; involucral scales hairy ; stigmas short, bright red.

Many plants pollinated by hummingbirds produce flowers in shades of red, orange, and bright pink, though the birds will take nectar from flowers of many colors.

Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two and a half to three inches long ; the calyx is bright yellow, hairy, six to eight-lobed, with lobes shorter than the stamens ; anthers are yellow.

Pistillate flowers are borne on short peduncles ; involucral scales are hairy, reddish ; calyx lobes are acute ; stigmas are bright red.

The flowers are bright red, 3 cm in diameter, with four to five petals ( often more on cultivated plants ).

The flowers are produced singly or up to five together in a cyme ; they are 3 – 5 cm diameter, and sweetly scented ; the original natural flower colour is bright pinkish-purple, but cultivars of other colours, including red, white, yellow and green, have been developed.

Sparaxis tricolor has bright red flowers with yellow and black centres.

Today Menke Park is a beautifully landscaped area with rose bushes and hydrangea, and the bright romanticism of Piccolo Pavilion's gazebo, bordered by a walkway and antique lampposts with hanging baskets bursting with bouquets of red, purple, yellow and pink flowers.

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink.

Its flowers measure up to 2. 5 cm across, have five petals, and are colored bright yellow with conspicuous black dots.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.

After these treatments the conjugate did not stain healthy or crown gall sweet clover tissues or stained them a very faint green which was easily distinguishable from the bright yellow-green specific staining.

Muller, nakedly exposed at the bright window like a deer pinned in a car's headlights, threw down the rifle and turned to jump from the table ; ;

The large municipal hall was ablaze with color, which shown out from the bright array of chic ballgowns worn by those participating in the `` maskers' dances ''.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

There were new yellow curtains, bright as a child's life ought to be, a new bedspread, lively with hopping rabbits, and hanging from the ceiling was an airy Mother Goose Mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze.

He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.

The deceased get help from different Buddhas who show them the path to the bright light.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

How bright is the Moon from Earth?

The iris is a sphincter formed from pigmented tissue that contracts when the eye is exposed to bright light, to protect the retina by limiting the amount of light passing through the pupil.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

In addition to the deep chestnut colour of their coats, they have bright white stripes on their sides to help camouflage them from their enemies.

The other bright stars in Capricornus range in magnitude from 3. 1 to 5. 1. α Capricorni is a multiple star also known as Algedi or Giedi.

About 50 million light-years from Earth, M77 is also a Seyfert galaxy and thus a bright object in the radio spectrum.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).