Good evening My Steemit Friends! It's my pleasure to write in this community, I trust everyone is great by God's Grace. Today I will be taking part in the steemphotos-contest #6 but before then I'll like to thank this community for organizing a contest like this to keep us active. For this contest I took photography of 4 beautiful red flowers 🌺 check them out below and their benefits:

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PHOTO NO 1: Hibiscus Flower

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Flower/Photo Description:

• I took the photo with my Tecno Camon 16S Phone. And the location is my home.

• The height of this flower is 6cm

• the plant only required sunlight and regular water to grow, no fertilizer. It's growing in by backyard landscape.

• it's a shrubs, the flower is so attractive and irresistible it's shrub is 6x4 feet and it used to have so many red blooms.

Benefits of Hibiscus Flower:

• the flower is not only attractive, it has so many health benefits
• it's a rich source of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, and Beta-carotene
• it fights inflammation
• lower Blood pressure and bad choresterol
• fight bacteria and act as an aid to weight loss.

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Photo No 2: Juncle Geranium

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Flower/Photo Description:

• I took the photo with my Tecno Camon 16S Phone. And the location was Uniuyo Town Campus.

• it's a flowering plant and evergreen shrubs

• it's 4-6feets and rounded form with a spread.

• it has oblong leaves which is about 10cm long

• as you can see it's flowers are scarlet in color and it's dense rounded cluster, of about 2-5inches.

Benefits of Juncle Geranium:

• it's ideal for formal hedges
• it's stem, root, leaves and flowers is used to treat numerous ailments, especially by Indians.
• the fusion of its leaves juice cures sickness like gonorrhea, ulcers and dysentery.
• let me tell you something, I used to lick 😋 the juice from the flowers from the time I was a kid even until now. Haha 😂 the juice is so sweet and sugary, reason I like it.

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Photo No 3: Alloplectus Plant

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Flower/Photo Description:

• I took the photo with my Tecno Camon 16S Phone. And the location is my home, precisely my flower bed.
• it's a Neotropical plant genus
• it's a gesneriaceae flowering plant family
• it's a shrub

Benefits of Alloplectus Plant:

• honestly speaking I don't really know other benefits of this plant and flowers apart from it ornamental value, yes it beautify an environment.

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Photo No 4: Acalypha Hispida

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Flower/Photo Description:

• I took the photo with my Tecno Camon 16S Phone when I visited the Ibibio Museum park, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Nigeria

• this flower got it's name from the french chenille which means hairy caterpillar, wow this name really suit the flowers as it looks like carterpillar, you know I was scared at first to touch it. 😂

• when I finally touch I realized that the flowers are soft tufted yarn.

• it's 2meter tall

• the leaves are 20x15 centimeters

Benefits of Acalypha Hispida:

• it's an ornamental plant, you can plant it either in your garden or house.

• I've learned that its leaves are diuretic and laxative, so it can be used to treat sickness such as gonorrhea and even leprosy.

• the different parts of the plant can be use to treat various infectious diseases.

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Conclusion:

This are my 4 red ♥️ photo flowers, I hope you like it, it comes with numerous health benefits, ones you will not want to miss. You can plant them in your garden or house. Thanks for reading through! I would like to invite @eliany @ubongudofot @gracyakan to take part on this contest