10 Interesting Flowers Native to India

By Calin Oancea

4/26/20246 min read

India is the world's 8th most biodiverse region in the world (Wikipedia 2024), with its wide range of biomes, especially when it comes to flowers.

In this helpful and actionable article, we will reveal 10 Indian flowers that our experts saw, inspected, and liked the most these flowers are both beautiful and interesting.

a big red Indian flower on a green leafy plant
a big red Indian flower on a green leafy plant
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This ridiculous Asian flower stands out from the others, we found it mostly in shades of red and Yellow. It is a perennial herb native to the Caribbean and South America and also grows in the southern regions of India and other southern regions of Asia. The flower can also pollinate itself.

Parakeetflower (Heliconia psittacorum)

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a Indian Parekeet flower with long red petals
a Indian Parekeet flower with long red petals

Alcea, also known as hollyhock, is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. It is a summer-blooming flower scientifically known as Alcea Rosea L. It can be found mostly in the northern regions of India but is also a Himalayan flower.

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a red flower with a leafy plant
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Hollyhock

There are a lot of snapdragon varieties, but they are almost all the same. They are a great part of Indian biodivestity and bloom in the northern hemisphere in May and in the southern hemisphere in October. The flower grows all around the world including India (mostly in the northern parts) but also on the two coasts.

Snapdragon

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a bush full of Indian Snapdragon flowers
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The Peregrina (Jatropha Integerrima) is a flower that blooms almost all over the year in warmer regions and it can be found in a lot of regions over the world including the Pacific islands and all over India, from the Himalayan regions down in the last southern coasts but it originally comes from Cuba and Hispaniola.

Peregrina

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two tiny red Peregrina flowers
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This amazing flower does not tolerate temperatures below 10°C (50°F) and is mostly cultivated as an ornamental plant that looks like a coral and a Hibiscus at the same time. It grows in Thailand, Vietnam and also in parts of South America and Europe and of course in India, spread all across the country.

Coral Hibiscus

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green vegetation with one Indian Coral Hibiscus
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The Peace Lily gives you a summer, refreshing and peaceful feeling. These types of Lilis can also be in the Himalayan mountains, including a lot of regions around the world. Its pollination is mostly done by flies, bees or beetles that are attracted to the flowers by their amazing look.

Peace Lily

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one white Peace Lily in a vegetative space
one white Peace Lily in a vegetative space

Matchstick Bromeliad (Aechmea Gamosepala), native to southern Brazil is a flower that also grows in other variations, one of the most interesting ones is the Aechmea Gamosepala with a red and pink structure like this one and blue balls at the ends of the red leaves. It can be found mostly in the southern regions of India.

Matchstick Bromeliad

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one long red flower named Matchstick Bromeliad
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Small and tiny, colored black and dark purple, this Indian flower can also be found in colors like orange, yellow and pink. The Hybrid violet scientifically known as Viola × Wittrockiana Gams is growing in the North Indian regions while also being a Himalyan flower but also in a lot of other regions of the world.

Hybrid violet

a purple Indian Hybrid Violet flower
a purple Indian Hybrid Violet flower
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This Indian flower is also a part of the South American flower family. The bracts can vary in color, ranging from white, red, mauve, purple-red, or orange. Its fruit is a small, dry, elongated achene, it is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants, similar to the Bush Allamanda flower.

Great Bougainvillea

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a lot of bright pink flowers on a stem
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This Yellow flower grows spread all over the southeastern regions of Asia but is not found very often. Allamanda bushes, scientifically known as Allamanda Schottiis, also have spiny fruits that appear mostly in summer. The flowers are pollinated by butterflies, while bees and wasps also visit the summer blooms. Like most of the flowers, it likes to grow in rich, well-drained soil and benefits from regular pruning.

Bush Allamanda

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a Indian flower between green leaves that is yellow
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