Cerulean Flax-Lily (Dianella ensifolia, 山菅兰).
Photographed on August 21, in a park in Xiamen. They grow in some remoter parts of Hunan as well (though I think less abundantly than further towards the southern coasts) but I have never found them near to Changsha.
Rough-leaved Cats-Whiskers (Rotheca myricoides, 蓝蝴蝶).
Native to mountains across Africa, with its striking dichasial cymes, it was one of the more beautiful summer flowers in the Xiamen Botanical Gardens.
Turk's Cap Cactus (Melocactus ssp?, 花座球属).
I found it growing through a crack in a wall, in one of the more rundown parts of Hulishan Cannon Fort in Xiamen. It is not a native species to China, and one wonders how it got here; When did its progenitor come from the Americas and how did its seems come to that particular crack between two sturdy stones?
