Egyptian starcluster
Pentas lanceolata · Garden flowers
Egyptian starcluster
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 29 May 2025
Each individual flower a five-pointed pink star, dozens of them packed into one flat-topped cluster.
Native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and a magnet for butterflies wherever it is planted as a summer bedding annual outside its own range. The tubes are exactly the length of a butterfly's tongue, which is why every butterfly house in the world grows it.
Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.
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