The Stunning Lupin Flowers In Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

The Lake is a paradise for photographs with its snowy mountains, beautiful bright blue lake, and a uniquely beautiful small church. 

Every year from mid-November to December, you get the chance to see the amazing, colorful Lupin flowers as well. Russell lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) is an exotic flower that can reach up to 1.5 meters. 

It is a perennial plant species and that means it flowers and sets seeds in the summer, dies back to the steam base during winter, and then flowers again the next summer. Russell lupins have long, brightly-colored flower heads. 

The plant has pea-like flowers and they come in a great variety of colors- blue, purple, orange, yellow, pink, white, and they can even be a mixture of two colors sometimes.

The plant's leaves are divided into green leaflets and they almost look like fingers on a hand. Stoud seedpods that emerge during the hot summer explode and release a ton of dark brown seeds.

It was Connie Scott of the nearby high country station of Godley Peaks that introduced the Russell Lupins back in the 1950s when the seeds were all over the place on the exposed sides of the main highway. 

You can find these tall plants in abundance along many roadsides, open areas along the village, and throughout the picturesque Mackenzie country. 

The variety of colors make the area of Lake Tekapo even more beautiful than it normally is, so the place is attracting photographers all around the world.