spider flower

Cleome houtteana

Reminiscent of butterflies are flying flowers

Location: Lake- Hill Farm
Location: Lake- Hill Farm
Location: Wakkanai,Hokkaido
Location: Lake- Hill Farm
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Hokkaido

Flower name
spider flower
Scientific name
Cleome houtteana
Aliasクレオメ・ハスレリアナ, Cleome, Cleome hassleriana, セイヨウフウチョウソウ, スイチョウカ, クレオメソウ, spider flower, 酔蝶花, spider plant, grandfather's whiskers
Place of originTropical America
Place of floweringGarden
Flowering seasonJune, July, August, September, October

What is spider flower

Birth flowers for Oct 15

The flower name "Cleome" includes references to arthropods such as butterflies and spiders.

Nephila clavata (Joro spider), Parantica sita (Chestnut Tiger butterfly), and Cleome hassleriana (Cleome) are notable examples. In Japan, Cleome is also known as the "butterfly" flower, while in the United States, it is sometimes referred to as the "spider" flower. Which do you think it resembles more, a butterfly or a spider?

Spider flower, scientific name:Cleome hassleriana , is annual non-cold-resistant grass of the Cleomegenus , the Cleomaceae department as native to tropical America. The leaves are palmately lobed with palmately compound with. During the rainy season-autumn evening in racemes stretched from stem to stem, butterfly-shaped flowers bloom. Flower flowers pink buds when I was as white as sichouka (drunken Butterfly flower) and is known in Japanese, as well as the SIF you (water rose-Mallow). Four by four stamens POPs long petals. Flower from the bottom on the bloom continues. So higher plant group planting in the Center's flower beds and planted at the end.

Common name: Spider flower, scientific name:Cleome houtteana, aka: cleome hassleriana , spider flower , origin: tropical America, height: 80-100 cm, leaf margin: entire left-right asymmetric flowers, racemes, Flowering period: June-October, flowering time: evening, flower color: pale pink, white and peach-color, flower size: 3-4 cm, number of petals: 4, fruit shape: capsule and ripens fruit.