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Pentas
3 August 2025
Pentas lanceolata
94% certain
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Origin
- East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
- Bloom season
- Warm months
- Colors
- red, pink, white, purple
- Habitat
- Butterfly beds and tropical borders
- Symbolism
- Attraction, and a wish that lands
A cluster of five-petaled stars that butterflies work all day, holding colour in heat that stops softer annuals.
Care. Plant in sun with even moisture and deadhead the old umbels to keep new ones coming.
A note. Each floret has five petals, which is what the Greek name pentas records.
Or perhaps
- Gaura — 52%
- Sage — 2%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Aug 3, 2025, 3:32 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 9mm f/2.8
- Focal length
- 9mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Shutter
- 1/99s
- ISO
- 40
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6679° N, 74.0984° W
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