Commons:Photo challenge/2025 - May - Flowers

2025 – May – Flowers

The new challenge features Flowers in natural setting.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout May UTC.

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• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. May 2025 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
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• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

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  Flowers near Machu Picchu, Peru
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  Kanzan (Prunus serrulata). Taken in Padua, Italy.
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  Head of a sunflower. Taken in Padua, Italy.
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  Macro of a yellow rose's petals. Taken in Padua, Italy.
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  Probably Lampranthus.
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  pink azaleas in Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, Rome
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  small periwinkle in Villa d'Este, Tivoli
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  a pale pink sweet William in Troodos Mountains, Cyprus
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  small blue plumbago in Heraklion, Greece
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  One purple Tulip with many white Tulips.
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  Bright red poppies on May day.
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  Purple flowers - unknown (Greece)
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  Cactus flower - leopard pattern
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  The beauty of simplicity - a small orange flower (Scarlet Pimpernel)
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  Zygaena moth on a Veronica flower in Barnaul
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  Impatiens flower in Altai Krai
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  Anemone flower in Altai Krai
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  Lots of pink rose flowers, Serbia
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  Couple of oriental iris flowers, Serbia
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  Multiple yellow rose flowers, Serbia
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  Two common garden peony flowers, Serbia
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  Some floral growth right on the tree trunk
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  Zinnia elegans; Cynia
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  Lilium parryi; Lilia
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  Aster; Aster L
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  Helianthus tuberosus; słonecznik bulwiasty
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  Prunus 'Kanzan' at Imperial Palace Inui Street, Tokyo, Japan
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  Cherry blossoms at Imperial Palace Inui Street, Tokyo, Japan
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  Cherry blossoms at Imperial Palace Inui Street, Tokyo, Japan
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  Cherry blossoms at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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  lotus flowers in Italy
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  Het opvallende vrouwenschoentje bloeiend langs een beek in Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Italië
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  Orchis italica in bloei in een olijfboomgaard in Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Italië
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  De zeldzame en bedreigde Iris marsica in bloei - Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Italië
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  Boerenpioen in bloei in Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Italy
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  Papaver rhoeas - Capsule and stamens
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  Schneeglöckchen (Galanthus elwesii) in Sachsen.
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  Anemone sylvestris. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.
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  Mohnblüte im privaten Garten in Sachsen.
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  Finger-Kuhschelle in Deutschland. Aufgenommen im Bürgerpark n Oelsnitz. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.
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  Bee at work
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  Calla flower
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  Cosmos bipinnatus in May
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  Erigeron glaucus
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  Viburnum, Koreanischer Duft-Schneeball im Naturpark Habichtswald
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  Ipomoea carnea im botanischen Garten, Road Town, Tortola
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  Allium ampeloprasum mit Bienen im Naturpark Habichtswald
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  Papaver somniferum kurz vor dem Aufblühen, in Germerode, Hessen
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  Emerging Red Geranium Bud (Pelargonium x hortorum)
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  Lantana Bud (Lantana camara)
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  Purslane with Bee (Portulaca oleracea)
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  White Rhododendron (Unknown variety)
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  A Paeonia officinalis L. flower
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  A single light pink Paeonia lactiflora flower
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  Ground ivy flowers
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  Inflorescence of a silk poppy flower
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  Květ jahodníku obecného, Čaková, Czech Republic
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  Kvetoucí mák, Čaková, Czech Republic
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  Rozkvetlý tulipán zahradní v trávě, Čaková, Czech Republic
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  Fleur en gros plan
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  Na obrázku je květ pampelišky lékařské, Čaková, Czech Republic
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  Margherita comune, ripresa con obiettivo macro nella foresta del vallone Cugno di Rio (Melilli)
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  Fiore di Solanum dulcamara, Lago di S. Rosalia (RG-Sicilia)
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  Fiori del cappero (Capparis spinosa), Punta Sant'Elia (Augusta-Sicilia)
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  Cardo mariano (Silybum marianum), vallone Cugno di Rio (Melilli)
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  Lupine in the Flatirons of the Rockies in Boulder, CO, USA
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  Bumblebee pollinating a marigold in Washington.
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  Tanacetum parthenium is a flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae
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  Iris bud
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  Akelei in Hürth
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  Rosa 'Augusta Luise'
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  Rosa 'Fourth of July'
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  Rosa 'See you in Rosé'
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  A flower in flight (in Princeton, USA)
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  Fly over NN at a flower garden in Altenberge, Münsterland, Germany
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  Cirsium eristhales in the Botanical Garden, Münster, Germany
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  Honeybee over NN at a flower garden in Altenberge, Münsterland, Germany
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  NN over NN at Wayanad, Kerala, India
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  Epidendrum orchid in Prague Botanical Garden
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  Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) in Prague Botanical Garden
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  Orchis mascula in commune of Apchon, Cantal, France
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  Echium vulgare in commune of Apchon, Cantal, France
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  Saxifraga granulata in commune of Apchon, Cantal, France
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  Silene dioica in commune of Menet, Cantal, France
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  Paulownia tomentosa in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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  Viola wittrockiana in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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  Viola wittrockiana in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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  Tagetes erecta in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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  Flower- Paeoina lactoflora in 2025
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  Rosa em um jardim
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  Allium giganteum em 2025
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  Planta em um jardim
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  Daisy flower with pink
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  Dandelion Clocks in late spring
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  Spring Bloom at Boise Depot
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  Saffron in autumn bloom
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  Clematis flower thru glass in Boise ID
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  Church door bedecked with flowers
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  gelbe Rudbeckia
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  Cephalanthus occidentalis, Knopfbuschblüte
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  jedes Jahr säht er sich selber wieder aus und sucht sich die besten Plätze im Garten
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  Wild wachsender Klatschmohn im Garten
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  Waterlily
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  Orchid
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  Hibiscus
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  Lilium
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  Common red bottlebrush near Olympia
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  Bougainvillea near Olympia
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  Malabar nut nectar robbing in Athens
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  Bright yellow Dandelion
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  Red poppy in Mycenae
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  Chrysanthemum flower with mantis, Tamilnadu India
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  Blooming hawthorn in Kyiv
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  Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on rhododendron
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  Hawkweed in a meadow at Oberbronn in Alsace
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  Common water crowfoot in Niederbronn-les-Bains, Alsace
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  Monotropa uniflora (ghost plant) captured in a forest near Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
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  Narcissus in natural setting, french Jura
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  Great forget-me-not with Azalea
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  Fringed Tulip in the Netherlands
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  White flowers
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  Ixora flowers, in natural settings, Tamilnadu, India.
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  field of flower in EXPO 2025
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  flowers in Lingnan Phoenix Park
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  photo taking before a wall of flowers
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  flowers in the sky
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  A daisy picture i took on a day trip
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  Hydrangea macrophylla flowers in the Kharkiv Botanical Garden, Ukraina
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  Gazania
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  Flower of a Rosa 'Rosengräfin Marie Henriette' in the City Park of Winschoten.
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  A photo of pink and blue wildflowers, found off the side of a highway.
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  Trampled ground where people sit to take pictures among the bluebonnets
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  A bee pollinating the bluebonnets
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  Bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes in Texas
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  Bluebonnet in Texas
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  Geranium flowers from Berovo, North Macedonia.
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  Pink and white Nymphaea lotus from Thessaloniki, Greece
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  Pink flowers of Antigonon leptopus
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  Flowers of an Aloe vera in Malaysia
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  Red flower of Papaver rhoeas from North Macedonia
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  Flower Gerber Daisy from North Macedonia/ Цвет од Гербер
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  Delicate flowers of a white Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bunchhyacinth).
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  Blackthorn flowers are an early food for bumblebees in spring
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  The inconspicuous flowers of Scrophularia nodosa are pollinated by wasps
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  Dandelion flowers are special beauties when viewed up close
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  The delicate petals of the wild poppy in Europe have an incomparable red glow
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  Yellow flowers
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  Flower cone of european larch tree, Mölndal, Sweden
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  Hortus Haren. Flowers of a Rhododendron calophytum.
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  Dahlia at Christchurch Botanic Gardens
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  Sky and Ice
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  Peony Field
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  Crocus family
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  Blooming carduus
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  Urban flower
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  Morning Rose
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  தென்னம் பூ
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  அவரைப்பூ
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  Lantana Camara in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
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  Philadelphus virginialis, Italy
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  "Falling In Love" (AARS 2007) cultivar rose at the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden in Santa Barbara, California
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  gesehen in Deggendorf
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  Beautiful to white flowering Rhododendron cultivar.
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  Anemone ranunculoides, Czech Republic
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  Hortus Haren. Blooming moeraslantaarn (Lysichiton americanus), yellow skunk cabbage.
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  Cuckoo campion, Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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  Rose in front of a stone wall
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  Purple Columbine (Aquilegia coerulea), Heidelberg, DE
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  Rose and rosmary on a round table
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  Primula cuneifolia var. heterodonta
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  Close-up of fuchsia flowers
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  Fried squash flowers
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  Red Rose with raindrops in the Blühendes Barock in Ludwigsburg
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  Pink Rose with raindrops in the Blühendes Barock in Ludwigsburg
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  Snowdrops (Galanthus) in the Blühendes Barock in Ludwigsburg
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  im blühenden Barock erstrahlt die Tulpe im gelbem Hintergrund
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  die Blüte des Zierlauch erwacht, im blühenden Barock in Ludwigsburg
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  die Weinbergtulpe im Gegenlicht, aufgenommen im Killesbergpark und Wartberg in Stuttgart Nord
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  Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla) in bloom in a garden, northern Germany
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  Forsythia (Forsythia × intermedia Zabel) in bloom in a garden, northern Germany
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  Chicory (Cichorium intybus) in bloom with honeybee in a garden, northern Germany
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  California tree poppy (Romneya coulteri) in bloom at Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, USA
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  Gaillardia pulchella
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  Tulipa gesneriana
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  Chaenomeles speciosa
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  Geranium molle
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  Blüten roter Lilie
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  Blüte von Clematis
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  Blüten einer Lilie
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  Blüte einer Lupine
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  Flowers in a monastery
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  Red tulip in front of the 16th-century cathedral
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  Nektar vom Krokus
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  Yellow and red tulips in front of St. Stephen's Church
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  Artificial roses in a vase
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  Pol snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis). Location. Garden sanctuary JonkerValley (Netherlands).
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  A bunch of Zinnias in the Baháʼí garden.
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  Bee flying away from a dahila
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  Urbanized sunflowers
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  Dianthus deltoides in the meadow, Czech Republic
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  Iris pseudacorus at Xaverov Pond bank, Prague, Czech Republic
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  Manacá-da-serra (Pleroma mutabile) blossoming in May
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  One black carpenter bee (Xylocopa tranquebarorum) prepares to stay on a pink flower of garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus).
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  Calla with water drop.
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  Flowers of a bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)
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  Flower of a garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
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  Flower of a Persian onion (Allium hollandicum) at the Bundesgartenschau 2023
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  Flower of a Magnolia (Magnolia)
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  Red Rongon (Ixora coccinea)
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  Frangipani (Plumeria rubra)
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  Flowering broom (Cytisus scoparius)
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  Two tulips on one stem
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  The Stolperstein attracts attention, as the rose testifies
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  Tulip
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  The spider flowers was decorated by LED light strings in the evening.
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  "Elle" cultivar of the 2005 All-American Rose Selections (AARS) in Santa Barbara, California
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  Orchid_Doritaenopsis
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  Dandelion_Taraxacum officinale F.H.
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  Flower tulip_Tulipa L.
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  Ostropest plamisty_Silybum Adans_Kwiat
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  Gurkenblüte mit Hummel - cucumber Blouson with guest(bumblebee)
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  Acker-Stiefmütterchen Viola arvensis
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  Verschiedenfarbige Schwertlilie Iris versicolor
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  A white bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-Scripta) among blue ones
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  Orchids in the Keukenhof, Lisse, NL
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  And then I’ll choose a tiny brush from plenty,
  And carefully stick it to the painting,
  And color blue the blossom of bluebell, and
  My tundra tales already will be done.
  (A. Gorodnitsky, "Tundra shadows")
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  Fiori di Cynoglossum creticum lungo un sentiero verso San Bernardino del Malpasso nel Parco Regionale di Bracciano-Martignano
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  Linaiola comune (Linaria vulgaris) in autunno ricoperta di brina, alla cascata del Parco della Mola di Oriolo Romano
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  Первоцвет весенний / Prímula véris
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  Flowering Pulsatilla at Prague Pasture, Czech Republic
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  Wood sorrel
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  The thistle is blooming
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  Zinnia elegan flower in Cornwall, Vermont
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  Dibawah Panasnya Sinar Mentari Kota Batam, Indonesia
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  Wild Purple Rose In Malang City, Indonesia
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  Borobudur Temple Park, Central Java, Indonesia
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  Borobudur Temple Park, Central Java, Indonesia
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  Rote Magnolienblüte beim Aufblühen im botanischen Garten zu Göttingen - Red Magnolie flower blossom out in the botanical garden in goettingen
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  Weiße Magnolienblüte im botanischen Garten zu Göttingen _ White Magnolie flower in the botanical garden in goettingen
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  Rosmarin-Seidelbast auf einer Lechbrenne im Landkreis Donau-Ries
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  Neotinea ustulata var. ustulata auf einer Lechbrenne, Detailansicht des Blütenstand
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  Bestand des Helm-Knabenkrauts auf einer Lechbrenne im Landkreis Donau-Ries
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  Fliederblüte mit Blatt
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  Flowers from Trondheim, Norway
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  Flower offering at the Jethawanaramaya Stupa, Sri Lanka
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  Exhibition Tatra Nature Slovakia, Leontopodium alpinum
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  Exhibition Tatra Nature Slovakia, Sempervivum globiferum
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  Oedemera barbara guests of a rose
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  Episyrphus balteatus doing a break in some flowers of Nothoscordum gracile
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  Lavendelblüten mit einer fleißigen Biene im eigenen Garten - Lavender flowers with a busy bee in your own garden - Fleurs de lavande avec une abeille laborieuse dans son propre jardin.
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  Gelbe Stiefmütterchen in einem Steintrog. Fotografiert in Collonges-la-Rouge - Yellow pansies in a stone trough. Photographed in Collonges-la-Rouge - Pensées jaunes dans une auge en pierre. Photographié à Collonges-la-Rouge
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  Weiße Blüten einer Mammillaria
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  Blüte einer Kaiserkrone (Fritillaria imperialis)
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  Blüten, Knospen und kleine Fruchtstände der Amerikanische Klettertrompete (Campsis radicans)
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  Strawberry flowers
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  A set of two pinkish water lilies photographed in a pond, with leaves besides them.
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  在某中学绽放的海棠花
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  Герань
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  Анютины глазки
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  Красный мак
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  Иван-да-Марья
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  Blossom of an ornamental leek with water droplets
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  Akeleiblüten
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  Close-up of Euryops Daisy
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  Dwarf Garland Spirea. Slovakia
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  No leaves only flower!
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  Violet Zinnia & Hoverfly (Syrphidae)
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  Purple Crocus & Honeybee (Apis mellifera)
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  A photo of big leaf Hydrangea Macrophylla as the focus with other hydrangeas
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  Yellow Dillenia suffruticosa
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  Barmasi (Catharanthus roseus) (periwinkle)
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  Water lilies at the lake
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  Jasud (hibiscus flower)
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  Aparajita (Clitoria ternatea) (Blue butterfly pea flower)
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  Flower close-up of the pink periwinkle at night
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  Aeonium Flowers
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  Part of the Japanese garden at Hershey Gardens
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  Hershey Gardens
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  Butterflies at Hershey Gardens
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  Golden Mums
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  Wild Trillium
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  AppleBlossoms
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  Red poppies on the walls of Ferrara, Italy
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  Two red poppies, Ferrara, Italy
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  Frangipani flowers at the arch
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  Flower carved out of stone 2
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  Flower pots in the rustic setup
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  Flower carved out of stone 1
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  Bi-colored roses in our garden Tamilnadu India
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  Macro shot of a daisy
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  Fiori bianchi e rossi di Salvia greggii. Orti del Chiostro della Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura a Roma
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  Sunflower Farm in Western India
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  Both wild Flowers closeup , white clover and bidens alba
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  Delonix regia flowers in prior to evening in a park of Howrah City
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  Löwenzahnblüten in verschiedenen Stadien
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  Tulpenblüte
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  Weiße Heckenrosenblüten
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  Stern-Anemone - Anemone hortensis
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  Nerium Oleander pink
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  Hortensie - Hydrangea
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  Blaukissen - Aubrieta
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  Linaria alpina in Vanoise National Park
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  Sunflower field in Burgundy
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  Sunflower field in Burgundy
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  plate with ceramic flowers
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  Duck sculptures made of flowers, Mainau (Germany)
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  Bee on Dahlia flower
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  Alstroemeria
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  Red flowering horse chestnut in Hannover
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  Virginia Lynn Cooper Memorial Tree
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  Flowers on the beach
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  Rhododendron garden in Japan
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  The fallen white flowers belong to Crape Jasmine (Tabernaemontana divaricata) shrub native to India.
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  Piante di Orchidea maggiore nel Parco urbano di Villa Ada a Roma
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  Cherry blossoms. Šidlovec district, Jánošíkova street. City of Prešov. Slovakia.
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  Rhododendron flower in the botanical garden in Munich
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  Allium Zebdanense in the botanical garden in Munich
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  Tulip in the botanical garden in Munich
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  Photo of rose from Pyin Oo Lwin,Myanmar
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  Tulip in the botanical garden in Munich
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  Leberblümchen (Hepatica nobilis) im Morgentau
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  Dancing lavenders
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  Cypripedium japonicum
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  Lemon-bellied white-eye perched around cassia flowers
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  An ant, a bee and a flower.
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  Cassia bakeriana in China
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  Flowers of Madeira
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  Chrysanthemum,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
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  Verbena hybrida,Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia
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  Different flowers used in a wedding
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  Flowers just make a place attractive
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  A restaurant used flowers to enhance the beauty of the place
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  strawberries flower
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  Flower stand
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  Red Hibiscus
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  Pink Rose Captured by Sifat
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  Cosmos at the Hong Kong Flower Show 2025
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  某种风铃草
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  A beautiful vibrant deep orange color of marigolds
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