This picture does not show a pagoda flower (nor the "auspicious Mahameru flower") but rather a plant called the Rheum nobile. While this large plant is native to the Himalayas, it does not bloom once ...

When in bloom, the pagoda plant, with its dramatic red-orange flowers arranged in a large bell, is an eye-catcher. ADVERTISING When in bloom, the pagoda plant, with its dramatic red-orange flowers ...

*Growth habit: An upright evergreen shrub with an open branching habit growing to 8 feet tall and wide. The leaves are bright green, rounded to heart-like in shape and grow to a foot in diameter.

In the old, pre-Legoland days, I enjoyed watching visitors to Cypress Gardens do double-takes when they encountered clumps of pagoda plants in bloom. Some folks actually poked the masses of flowers to ...