Flowering Gallery

Sakura, Japanese Cherry Blossom flowers in Tokyo, Japan

The first Japanese Cherry Blossom in Tokyo brings out the crowds in Shinjuku Park in Tokyo, Japan. The cherry blossom is known as Sakura in Japan and the traditional custom of viewing the flowers is known as Hanami

© Paul Brown

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Japanese Cherry Blossom flowers, the Sakura in Tokyo, Japan

The first Japanese Cherry Blossom in Tokyo brings out the crowds in Shinjuku Park in Tokyo, Japan. The cherry blossom is known as Sakura in Japan and the traditional custom of viewing the flowers is known as Hanami

© Paul Brown

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Papaver (Poppy), two varieties

Two varieties of Papaver (Poppy) -- Papaver flore pleno rubrum (Double Red) and Papaver Eraticum rubrum (Wild Red), drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629), one of many plates in a book entitled Hortus Eystattensis sive diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium ex variies orbis terrae partibus. The book contained illustrations of the flowers in the garden of Prince Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, in Eichstatt, Germany. Date: 1613

© Mary Evans Picture Library