The finely textured leaves support spiky flowers this month.

A hatbox is blazed with bio-hazard symbols, which are red, spiky three-petaled flowers, and it is used for storing and transporting infectious waste.

This easily-grown plant has been a familiar subject in English cottage gardens since Elizabethan times, admired for its ferny foliage, spiky flowers and bulbous seed-heads.

And who could resist the rarely seen Sixties variety, 'Royal Wedding', with its dark foliage and spiky orange-red flowers shaded in yellow.

L. gladiatum produces brown spiky flowers on long central stalks the flowers are hermaphroditic.

Recognized in the field by the attractive white or red spiky flowers.

It is not the fault of gladioluses that their tall, spiky flowers are perfectly suited to those coffin-flanking arrangements.

Heliconia, a kind of wild South American banana, produces long hanging stems with lines of triangular spiky flowers on each side.

It has long spiky flowers that are great curiosities.

A Tari man was tending huge spiky blue flowers by brushing their yellow throats with a small brush.