FLOWER

<n>Flower Composition 68</n> by <n>gracejolie</n>.

A 1997 photograph titled <n>Three Poppies</n>.

<n>Orchid</n> (1986) by photographer <n>Robert Mapplethorpe</n>.

Photo by <n>Hostal Nordés</n> for <n>M Le magazine du Monde</n> in Oaxaca.

Still from the 1990 film <n>Close-Up</n>, directed by <n>Abbas Kiarostami</n>.

<n>Robert Mapplethorpe</n>'s 1984 photograph, <n>Tulips</n>.

A flower vendor's bicycle outside <n>Gia Trịnh Bakery</n> in Hanoi, Vietnam.

<n>Antonio</n>, a Mixtec man, carries <n>Alpinia purpurata</n> flowers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by <n>Luvia Lazo</n>.

Perennial garden photographed by <n>Jan Johnsen</n>.

<n>Asclepias Syriaca</n> (c. 1928) by photographer <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>.

Photograph by <n>Ashley Day</n> of <n>ISLYN STUDIO</n>.

The <n>Double Herbaceous Borders</n> at <n>RHS Wisley</n>.

<n>Odontocidium Tiger Crow 'Golden Girl'</n> orchid by <n>Anne Belmont</n> at the <n>Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Show</n>.

<n>Dianthus caryophyllus (Grass Pink)</n>, c. 1928, by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>.

<n>Untitled, from Sensual Flowers</n> by <n>Nobuyoshi Araki</n>, 1996.

Poppies from the Spring Collection by <n>Tineke Paardenkooper</n>.

<n>Orchids</n> by <n>Irving Penn</n> for <n>Vogue</n>, published in December 1970.