Today's beautiful banner of a Oncostele orchid has inspired me to think about brown and gray flowers. Both colors can be under-appreciated because they don't necessarily "pop" like brighter oranges, reds, and yellows.

Many Gymnocalyciums are a very faint brown or gray (often described as "off white" or "dirty white"), some Zinnia haageanas approach purplish brown, and I also think of Stapelias (and relatives), Gazanias, and African daisies.

Today I pored over the database and found examples of flowers that fall along the brown and gray spectra. Most of the flowers which have gray tones also have brown ones, but there are many with brown tones that do not have grey (these tend more toward red and orange).















































































































Please feel free to add more.

I've a lot of grey Bearded irises thanks to bee crosses.

Beautiful!

Here is a gray blooming today... some friend says it purplish-blue.
I find it kind of gray..

OMG, it's so gray it blends in to the forum background. I love it!

Very pretty! What species is that?

The color reminds me VERY much of some poppies I grew several years ago which were "Mother of Pearl."

The current formulation of "Mother of Pearl" doesn't seem to have as many gray examples.

Jai_Ganesha said:OMG, it's so gray it blends in to the forum background. I love it!

Bwa ha ha ha.... yup I forgot to deactivate the invicibility mode of that image..
LOL...
but if you can see by UV spectrum..it might ne visible...
sorry...

a complex tropical hybrids I believes... it was an old variety I obtain round 15 years ago. no varietal information back then off course... slow grower, but I keep it

...eta; I supposed to say it is a tropical hibiscus hybrids

tofitropic said:

Bwa ha ha ha.... yup I forgot to deactivate the invicibility mode of that image..
LOL...
but if you can see by UV spectrum..it might ne visible...
sorry...

Now activating BIRD VISION! lolol

Very neat. I've also loved chocolate cosmos.

Lovely!

I've shared this elsewhere on the forums but here's a grayish pink Gymnocalycium from today.

Wow... I think you nailed it! thanks for the reminder that I hid a chocolate bar in the fridge...yummmm!

That Ghost Orchid looks like a scary fish. Pretty awesome species.

one of the bloom opened this week with brown-ish theme, Aristolochia gigantea