4-syllable Flowers that end with A

List of 4-syllable Flowers that end with A

1

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea glabra

A vigorous thorny South American climber whose papery, vividly coloured bracts cover walls and pergolas in every warm city of the world.

2

Calendula

Calendula officinalis

A hardy Mediterranean annual with edible bright orange petals long used as poor man's saffron and as a healing salve for the skin.

3

Camellia

Camellia japonica

A glossy-leaved evergreen shrub of East Asia whose formal winter blooms rival the rose and whose leaves, in one species, produce all the world's tea.

4

Forsythia

Forsythia × intermedia

A vigorous deciduous shrub whose bare branches erupt into bright yellow bell-shaped flowers in early spring, signalling the start of the gardening year.

5

Magnolia

Magnolia × soulangeana

An ancient genus of flowering trees whose huge waxy goblet flowers predate bees and were pollinated by the earliest beetles a hundred million years ago.

6

Plumeria

Plumeria rubra

A small tropical tree with sculpted five-petaled flowers and an intoxicating evening fragrance, the signature lei flower of Hawaii.

7

Wisteria

Wisteria sinensis

A vigorous East Asian climber whose drooping racemes of fragrant lilac or white pea-flowers turn pergolas and old walls into late-spring spectacle.