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False colour infrared (IR) thermography was performed on a sunny summer day in the Berlin Botanic Garden. The main interest focused on blossoms of different size, colours and shapes: disk-, bowl- and funnel-like anatomy demonstrating various modes of light absorption and heating-up during the day. Some of the flowers were phototropic or even solar tracking. Blossom temperatures ranged from 18.0 to 33.3 °C (mean 26.3 ± 2.5 °C, S.D., n = 37) at 21 °C air temperature. Several thermograms showed honey- and bumblebees also. In some cases the results are compared with those of a contact-free IR thermometry. One winter- and one late-spring-flowering plant are included in the overview.