More Beautiful Flowers

大家好! 

       對不起您們，我沒有繼續做這些花的照片。找花的名字不很容易，再說我得越來越花很多時間讀書，因為我快好畢業高中。如果你不會聽懂中文，別躁急! 可是您們應該懂我寫的東西。我們開始!

-陳果心

Enough Chinese? Hahhaha. Well I just spent 1-2 hour(s) practicing for my Chinese pronunciation test. Meap. Now to the flowers.

Some I can name but others I cannot.

• Common name: Bermuda buttercap, Sour grass, English weed, etc.
• Scientific name: Oxalis pes-caprae
• Commonly found in California, America, Israel, Europe and Australia (native to South Africa area) Also it can be found in salt-marshes
• Perennial Flower, color is yellow and has shamrock leaves
• Takes a few weeks to germinate
• Prefer in shady, moist areas
• Apparently it's a weed, an invasive species, but a pretty one. :D But it's difficult to remove once it's settled.
• Beneficial to bees and wildlife that wants to eat it seed ( and also livestock food), and it's edible but not recommend. It's a source of oxalic acid but also a diuretic. Eating too much of them may cause calciun oxalate kidney stones. Usually that happens to animals when they eat it in excess. 

• Common names: Bird of Paradise (allusion to Up) Crane Flower, Strelitzia, The Official Flower of the City of Los Angeles
• Scientific name: Strelitzia reginae
• Commonly found in South America and Latin America like Mexico, Chile, and Belize, Bangladesh, America like California and Florida, Australia  ( native to South Africa)
• Perennial flower, colors range for the sepals is red to orange to yellow and for the petals is blue to purple; the "beak" is called the is spathe 
• Takes 3-5 years to flower after germination. Yes that's a long time. 
• Prefer to be in warm, sunny area with fertilized loamy ( silt, sand, and clay) soil
• Drought resistant, ) it's a monocot (for a more scientific name monocotyledonous  
• Beneficial  to birds who sometimes perch on the "beak"