firecrackerplant, perhaps because they just generally have a very simple shape. The best photo opportunity I ever had (and missed–) Was of a whole row of lipstick blooms bobbing across the terrace–each carried by a worker for the leafcutter ants. I can’t believe that it didn’t occur to me to take a photo. Or perhaps I did and it is stuck on some old hard drive that I’ve forgotten.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/05/02/flower-of-the-day-may-3-2016-bearded-iris/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I saw it today in a flowershop – for the very first time.
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What a coincidence. Was it a cut flower or a plant? Did you buy it?
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It was a plant and no, I didn’t buy it. I wondered if the name was an allusion to the colour of the flowers, but now I’ve come to think the shape is supposed to resemble a lipstick? To me they look more like little trumpets. 🙂
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At the stage where they are still closed, they look like a tube of lipstick. When they open they do look like trumpets.
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I see – I don’t use lipsticks, so I wouldn’t know. 😉 The German common name is shame flower in translation, derived from the Greek original. Doesn’t sound as nice as lipstick, does it?
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Because it droops its head, no doubt. The same thing that makes it impossible to photograph.
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Actually, I think you captured it pretty well. Wonderful 😀
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