Delonix regia ?

https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/home-garden/article/Keeping-hummingbirds-humming-along-6527035.php#photo-8684987

Caesalpinia for me too.

After a lot of searching I lean towards Caesalpina pulcherrima, too, but it took me some time to decide. Thanks a lot everybody.

Windberry, why didn't you just press on the picture and get your magic answer? I now see that trick as cheating from the identifier's point of view. You see, if your are not going to make an id based on your own personal knowledge and experience with plants then why bother? Yes you people that use that google feature are as much cheaters as the people who use internet pictures for querries! The pots once again calling the kettle black!

Really, Jay? All I did was request you tell us up front it was a "quiz" rather than a true request, so as to not waste our time. We are volunteers and share our knowledge because we want to help people identify their plants. I doubt you have even an inkling as to my personal knowledge and experience in the industry.

Jay 6a Chicago: " why didn't you just press on the picture and get your magic answer? "

Because I don't have that magic power to get the magic answer just by pressing on the picture. As for the rest of your elaboration I think I will leave it without comment.

Boy, that takes a lot of nerve, Jay.

I would only like to use internet photos as educational tools, with everyone having full knowledge of course. Only when it's dreadfully slow whoch is now not the case. The problem I see with using google to ID plants is it stops a person from learning all the clues that lead up to getting an accurate id. If you really want to be an ace at plant id's you will never get there using google for all your answers. I had to delete the autocorrect on my phone because it couldn't handle Latin names. Then I realized I couldn't spell anymore. Same thing can happen using google. There are those occasions when you just have to know and it's killing you, then you can use it to avoid being carried off lol! I can't wait for the plants to return so I can take my own photos to submit! Google can't give you a ride home, a glass of cold water, or an energy bar lol!

Windberry, as long as I'm already here. Here's am article about the Eastern Monarchs who have had an increase in poppulation thanks to us Easterners who seem to have a better understanding of Monarch care.

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/agrawal/author/anurag-agrawal/

Jay, all of us use a variety of inputs to make that first ID of a new species, then use that knowledge to make subsequent IDs of that same species. The first ID comes from books, the Internet (i.e. pictures and photo identification utilities), dichotomous keys, help from friends and family, and in some cases magic (I hope floral uses the white kind). A right answer is equally right, whether it comes from a Google utility or from personal experience.

Well, yes I do need it for comparisons and all that. It is vital to use it. I just mean to get a straight answer without putting any personal imput isn't good, but yeah I do need to look at a lot of pics supplied by google to teach a conlusion of my own. Basically, the majority of the plants submitted on here are plants from somewhere else that I have no knowledge or experience with so the only means I have at my disposal are internet pictures to compare and search with. I do come across unusual plants on the internet from time to time that I think would be fun for guessing games, but even some of those plants might only take like 2 seconds to get ID'd and then there's the shock and amazement. I wasn't aware some were resorting to incantations lol!

If you really want to be an ace at plant id's you will never get there using google for all your answers.

Jay, please stop with the slights. You don't seem to grasp that more than a few contributors in Name that Plant are professionals, have degrees in Ornamental Horticulture and/or related fields of study, or are enthusiasts that have many decades of experience in plant identification. And even those with less experience can identify many of the plants posted here.

If you plan to continue to presume to school others as to how to become more proficient at identification, then you should post your degrees and experience so that we may fairly evaluate your qualifications to do so.

There was no slight intended at you. I'm not trying to be some big educator, and I'm aware of everyones credentials on this forum. Please chill! I'd really like to be on better terms Gyr. Anyone who grows Ceropegias ........... .

I wasn't going to even respond to your "Chill!" post, but I see you have now edited and added. In the other thread, when I explained how people actually spend time on ids, and requested you just include in the post that you are quizzing only, I thought the whole matter was done. No biggie.

But when you began posting in this thread, chiding the OP (original poster) for not finding the plant name on their own by using the internet, referring to googled answers as cheater identifications, and posting about how others should increase their skills or not bother, yes, I thought that was rude behavior.

As expressed previously, I don't believe anyone objects to your posting obscure plants as challenge ids, especially when the board is slow. You can even use internet photos and request people not use the search to come up with the guesses. Or have varying difficulty levels. The discussions about characteristics that cause guessers to think a plant might belong to a particular family can be instructive, and there are always new keys to be learned. I've participated in other forums with similar games and it can be fun, especially if people of all skill levels feel they can make guesses without being shamed for wrong answers.

I'm not sure what you are referring to with"Anyone who grows Ceropegias ........... ." Care to explain?

I wasn't chiding Windberry. I like Windberry! I meant someone who grows Ceropegias has to be interesting to know, that is if you do grow them, I'm not sure, you showed a pic on patterns but maybe it wasn't yours. I'm not itching to do anything on this forum at the moment and I probably won't be until all the plants are green again. I was more interested in doing it as a game, not a learning tool. As far as learning goes we all teach each other little things as we go along and even if there were a designated teacher that person would still be learning little things from the students so we all learn little things from each other all the time. You know like, I'll get a like months after making some comment because some person just saw it and discovered a new plant to grow, so hey it's little things like that, that make you think maybe I am doing something right lol. If I hang out here too long I'll be able to ID everthing and then I won't be able to submit any more questions lol!

You know, when anyone is in danger of recognizing all of the plants, they change the names of 15% of them, and introduce another 20,000 cultivars into the trade. So, good luck with that! ;)

I took the photo of the Ceropegia, but the plant was at a retail nursery.

Oh, ok. Yeah me learning everthing haha! They keep changing all the names. So, anyone who would photograph a Ceropegia must be intersting. I'd grow them but I don't have good indoor light. I suppose that if I were living in LA I'd probably have pots of Stapeliads lining the driveway and patio, not to mention a host of other sun and dry lovers.

I don't get the reference to 'pressing on the picture'. Do you mean doing a Google search? If so, that's not at all a reliable way of identifying a plant. Just out of curiosity I tried it on this image. You get 'Jamaican National Bird'. No info at all about the plant. Very often if it does come up with a plant name, it's wrong.

I sometimes use google when identifying plants but only as I would use a reference book, to check a hunch or to retrieve a name which I know I know but can't recall immediately. It is only helpful if you start with some known facts such as family or genus which you determine from basic background knowledge. Then, once you've come up with a possibility, you need to reverse check several times. Many of the images on the web are incorrectly labelled. And of course occasionally I use magic.

I think when you press on the photo and then press 'search for google image it usually shows you the plant at a sight where it's labeled. It doesn't work every time. I just use the google photos to make id's by comparing photos of related species. It's a great thing we have all these internet photos, otherwise we'd have to look at dried plant specimens which would really affect the continuity of this forum lol. Yes, the majority of photos on google are mislabled. That's really ridiculous. They should fix that. Usually the top 2 pictures are the plant you are looking for, and the further down you scroll the more remote you get from your desired target. Magic? There is the question as to whether it's white or black magic. I'll have to get out my magic plants book and decipher the true meaning of that posie lol! The book on magical plants, I bought that in Salem Mass. There was a black cat in the hotel hallway so I wouldn't walk down it.

It doesn't work on the OPs image. As I said, I did a google search on it and it only tells you about the humming bird.

btw, all the plants in that posy are poison, except the Geranium. Cackle.

Beautiful, but deadly! Windberry, I'm sorry for hijacking your thread. You've been most gracious. Thank you!