( Powder Puff Hollyhock )
An old-fashioned favorite that demands attention. Excellent tall background plant for the perennial border. Large, double flowers come in white, and pink. Leaves are slightly hairy, light green and rounded with 3 to 7 lobes.
A very common, low branching shrub or small tree with multiple trunks, it is native to Suriname it grows up to a height of 15 feet; has evergreen bipinnate, oblong leaves and axillary, compound, showy pink flowers, like a powder puff.
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Golden Powder Puff (Parodia chrysacanthion): Mature plants are covered with golden spines and dense white wool on new growth. Small, yellow flowers appear in spring and summer.
Calliandra surinamensis (Surinam Powder Puff, Pink Powder Puff, Surinamese Stickpea, Officiers-kwast, Family: Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae)
Calliandra tweedii, Inga pulcherrima (Red tassel flower, Family: Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae) ...
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Mammillaria bocasana (Powder Puff Cactus)
Mammillaria bocasana ssp. eschauzieri (Eschauzier's Pincushion)
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Golden powder puff (Parodia chrysacanthion)
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Goldenrod (Solidago species)
Gooseberry (Ribes species)
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The plant has a wiry green stem with a flowerhead that looks a bit like a flattened fluffy powder puff, with layers of petals around a darker heart. The foliage itself has slim lance shaped leaves.
At last I have discovered the name of my Powder Puff tree. I have the white variety, which is beautifully scented, is a strong grower and needs to be Kept under control. My neighbour has a young tree grown from one of my seed pods.
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Calliandra calothrysus. Fiery Powder Puff. Not common.
Candytuft
Canna lilies. Cannaceae, the canna family. Several ornamental or hybrids have brilliantly colored flowers in yellow or orange or red or salmon.
The popular Chater's Double Hybrids have dense, many-petaled flowers in a variety of colors, and 'Marjorette' is shorter with lacy semi-double flowers in pale pastels. 'Powder Puffs' has ruffled fowers, like, well, powder puffs.
Single-flowered hollyhock blooms are to 3 inches across and have the typical protruding stamenal column found in the hibiscus family. Double forms are available which look like powder puffs.
Pink Powder Puff (Calliandra haematocephala)
Pink Scotch Heather (Erica canaliculata)
Pink Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa)
Pink Thrift (Armeria maritima 'Splendens')
Pink Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia impetiginosa)
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 See also: Pink, Green, India, Orange, Grass
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