The different stages of a king protea flower...

I took these at the Kula Lavender Farm. I didn't get one though with it all the way open...still these are so pretty and I think it's so cute how they start out as a little ball and change their shape so much as they grow.

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Big Black Flower! What is it?

Does anyone know what kind of a flower this is? It's another one of the beauties we saw at the Kula Lavender farm...it seems like it might be a type of protea..but not any I've ever seen. I'll post some protea plants tomorrow..





It's either black ...or a super deep purple. Also on some there were more flowers growing out of the middle...they are yellow and in bunches..they looked like someone just stuck them there..not like they belonged at all yet it was on a number of different ones so they were definitely growing out of the centers. There are just so many varieties of plants and flowers..creation never ceases to amaze me :)

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