Dietes bicolor, butterfly iris

This photo of an iris was supplied by my friend Susan Estrope Dicker. After weeks of searching, I finally managed to identify this as dietes bicolor or butterfly iris.

Plant	Dietes bicolor
Common name	Peacock flower, Butterfly iris
Location	Australia
Camera	Panasonic Lumix S3
Photographer	Susan Estrope Dicker

Image owned by susan Estrope Dicker and published with permission.

Flowers: Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Peacock flower, poinciana

I do nor know what happened to this post. The original image is not showing anymore!
So I am changing the photo, but still linking to it.

The flower above was photographed in Clarkfield, Pampanga. Here is a yellow variety.

Some say it is a flower of the fire tree. We will check that statement later, but according to the reference, this one only grows to 3 meters high. Can our readers verify that the flower in this page, is different from the one shown here.

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One of the commenters said that it is a Casesalpinia shown in the link.So peacock flower is a firetree?

Plant	Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Common name	Mexican bird of paradise, peacock flower, poinciana, [firetree], caballero
Camera	Olympus VG-110
Location	Clarkfield, Pampanga
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Acknowledgment	Rebecca Adorio(Common name)
Reference	Wikipedia entry
Album	Facebook.com

Revisions.

1. August 22, 2012Added Mexican bird of paradise to common names.


2. October 27, 2012Changed the photos