What is the most fragile (but prettiest) flower?
The red poppy looks like the most fragile crepe paper, and is short-lived and easily torn. Its red colour is fantastic. There’s also a beautiful exotic flower called the night-blooming cereus, which blooms once a year for one night, gets pollinated by moths, and the bloom dies. It is a beautiful layered flower; look it up and you will see what I mean. It is fragile in the sense that if you miss seeing it when it blooms once annually, at night yet, then you miss out for another year. Which means that you don’t see real ones very often in your lifetime. Dinner-plate hibiscus flowers are huge, brightly coloured and ephemeral, also. They are short-lived but very dramatic, and very easily damaged. Everyone is saying orchids, but I don’t consider them fragile at all: most orchids are long-lived, fairly easy to grow, their flowers are long-lasting on and off the plant, and the flowers’ petals can tolerate more abuse (being moved around, the elements, banging into other things, etc.) than most
