Flowers of Ghana

"There are many color ful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns."

-Ghanian Proverb

The Cheille Plant with fuzzy red flowers like resemble strands of Chenille yarn.

Sulpher Cosmos

                                                   Sulpher Cosmos  Parrott Heliconia -

                                        Resembles parrots plummag.   The false "bird of paradise."

Queens Crape Myrle or Pride of India

The flower provides relief from constipation

Beach Spider Lily

Petals are vanilla scented

Bay Biscayne creeping oxeye or Singapore Daisy

    

Hibiscus Red Live

Golden Trumpet

While the plant's juice or milky sap is toxid for humans and animals it is still used as a laxative.

Plumeria Flower 

These produce scented oils and are used for Leis.  

Symbolizes "love" and "new beginnings"

Crown of Thorns also known as the Christ Plant 

due to the legend that it was used as the throny crown worn by Jesus

 

also Cown of Thorns

  The "flowers" are actually colorful bracts that surround the plant's small true flowers.

All the flowers in the compound of our apartment in Accra, Ghana

Gardenia

  Krysti's favorite because the bloom is perfect and through the scent beauty is everywhere.

They belong to the coffee family

Cape Honeysuckle  

Native to South Africa

Bark is used to relieve pain and to treat sleepiness, bronchitis, fevers and dysentery

Scaly Tangerine Mushroom

(Obviously not a flower, but just as beautiful)

Double-petaled Red Hibiscus. 

Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies to gardens.

Pink Oleander

Toxic to humans and animals

Tropical Hibiscus Flower, "Rose of China"

The Desert Rose or Sabi Star or Impala lily or Mock Azelea

from the Sabi River region in  South Africa

Red  ripe Clusters  (Betel Nuts) of the Manila Palm or Christmas Palm

Native to the Philippines

Bougaivillea Flowers, ornamental bush native to South America

Pink Bougainvillea Tree

Flower used for cough and asthma and gastrointestinal problems

Jungle Geranium or Flame of the Woods or Jungle Flame

Native to Southern India

Double Petal Orange Hibiscus 

White Mexican Petunia

White bloom is the Pink-eyed Pong Pong or Sea Mango because it produces oblong, mango-shaped fruits ripen from green to pink/purple to black

Pink bloom is the Madagascar Periwinkle (the source of the cancer treating drugs vincristine and vinblastine)

Purple Fringe

Flower grows coiled like a scorpions tail.  Long stamens with yellow anthers extend far past the petals creating a "fringed" look.

Native to North America

Indian Head Ginger or Spiked Spiral Flag Ginger

Red orange flowers emerge from this cone, one at a time.

Google wasn't quite sure but called it the African Daisy

Double Petaled Yellow Hibiscus

"Family names are like flowers,they bossom in clusters."

-Ghanian Proverg