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Posted: **June 8th, 2009, 2:56 am**

I already know lang's rose and kawasaki's roses, I'm looking for some other rather impressive flowers to make , which ones would you recommend?

Posted: **June 8th, 2009, 3:06 am**

Hi-welcome to the forum! I am no flower expert, but I have a few more that I can recommend. Michael Lafosse has published 3 flower designs that I know of-his Cattleya Orchid in Advanced Origami and his Munich Orchid and Modular Flower in Origami Art. Especially his Cattleya Orchid is very elegant and beautiful. The traditional Lily from a frog base is also nice, even though it is so common.

Posted: **June 8th, 2009, 4:09 am**

Hi, Welcome to the forum!

Rose by Brian Chian
[img]http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/rose/rose.jpg[/img]
Others:
Common Star Lily by Kenny Baclawski
That one's awesome!
Star Flower by Seth Friedman
Aechmea Fasciata by Robert J. Lang.

Posted: **June 9th, 2009, 1:40 pm**

This one is kind of obscure, but Martin Wall's rose from Harbin's Origami 4 has a stem and three leaves color changed also:

Posted: **June 10th, 2009, 4:01 am**

Wow! Penselen, those flowers look beautiful! Is Harbin's Origami 4 still in print?

Posted: **June 10th, 2009, 4:44 pm**

The Muira-ken beauty rose by Robert Lang

Definately one of my favorites. And of course Lafosse has excellent flowers as well. And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

Posted: **June 11th, 2009, 4:23 am**

And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

Oh, I forgot

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Posted: **June 12th, 2009, 6:25 am**

I like a lot this one named 'Blossoming flower' of the Origami Austria site, wich I learned to fold for a special day.

http://www.origamiaustria.at/diagrams.php?lang=2

Posted: **June 12th, 2009, 3:03 pm**

And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

still my favorite

[img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris/bilder/039.jpg[/img]

Posted: **July 23rd, 2009, 2:54 am**

impressive flowers? hey, that's totally all I do (except they may be too impressive--as in take several days to fold)

learn brian chan's rose. it's not that hard if you can do the kawasaki and lang roses easily, and it makes people go WHOA

Posted: **July 23rd, 2009, 3:05 am**

Lang's rose for sure looks more realistic than other origami flowers that even though are nice, are not that much realistic. Here's one folded by a friend of mine:

Posted: **July 23rd, 2009, 6:08 am**

I've got an orchid that I've diagrammed, and it takes a lot of sculptural ability to pull off:

Posted: **February 18th, 2010, 9:47 am**

I like Phu Tran's Rose the best !

http://origami.artists.free.fr/PhuTran/Roses/roses.htm

Posted: **February 18th, 2010, 12:09 pm**

legionzilla wrote:Is Harbin's Origami 4 still in print?

I'm afraid you're out of luck there. Its a pretty rare book by all accounts, so you'll have to do a fair amount of googling if you want to find a copy.

Luckily I got mine in a charity shop over 20 years ago for something like 10 pence

Posted: **February 19th, 2010, 12:19 am**

@Brian

What did I say about shameless self-promotion?

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