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Flowers brought to Baja by man/woman
Or non-indigenious may have been a better way of putting it.
This one resembles the stink plant. The flower looks exactly the same but fortunately this one doesnt smell. My understanding is that the smelly one
is a great fly trap as it smells like rotting meat. yummy.
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Bourgainvilla
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Birds of Paradise
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Bourgainvilla
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I recently learned that Bougainvilla was named after a great French botanist who discovered this plant in Brazil while on Cook's first voyage. It was
Cook's greatest voyage, where he circumnavigated the earth in 5 years. Most of his crew died of scurvy as the limeys hadn't yet learned of the
benefits of eating limes. Bougainvilla never completed the voyage either. He died of fever somewhere in the East Indies. He was in his twenties. It's
said he had a brilliant mind. Linnaeus was smart to have all his specimens sent to his native Sweden at about the same time.
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More on Bougainvilla
To me, bougainvilla is the quintessential Mexican house plant (I know they're from the tropics). I love them. What's an adobe archway without
bougainvilla lacing it's sides? What's a mexican courtyard without bougainvilla climbing up the posts to the second floor terrace? I see them here at
our old spanish missions and they complement the architecture perfectly.
Although close up the flower is not particularly beautiful the plant as a vine is exceptional. The closest thing I have seen in the US is blooming
wisteria on the brick buildings on the east coast. But it's over real quick.
The other household tree I associate with baja is one you often see in the yards of La Paz. It's an umbrella shaped canopy tree with long sparse
leaves that hang downward. There are clusters of long bright red flowers that hang downward from the leaf canopy. I am sure you've seen them. I don't
know what they're called. Perhaps Judy has a picture of them as well. Anyway, to me they are also quintessential Latin America. I've seen them in
homes from Baja Sur to Peru. They're cheerful.
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Joe,
You should try driving through south florida down to the keys.
Bougainvilla is everywhere, and in many colors and varieties.
There is a nursery in the keys that specializes in hybrids.
I like the color you show; also great to cut flowers and float in water.
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Red Flower
Is this it, Joe?
In the Caribbean they call it Flamboyant. I think in the states they call it Jakarunda(I have no idea how to spell that!). There is a game that the
Mexcian kids play with the flower.
I also love bourgainvilla. The colors are so vibrant and I love the little detail of the small white flower within the flower.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Is this it, Joe?
In the Caribbean they call it Flamboyant. I think in the states they call it Jakarunda(I have no idea how to spell that!). There is a game that the
Mexcian kids play with the flower. |
I am not sure. I don't think so. It's a different shade of red. It's like poinsettia red.
This tree produces a strange fruit. The fruits are hard, brown, and shaped like a pea pod. Imagine an 8 inch pea pod that is hard, brown, and
dehydrated. If you chew on this thing it tastes sort of sweet. Yeah, I just stretch over a neighbor's fence and give one a yank. One fruit can last a
while.
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Joe
It is the same one. In the caribbean they also call it motherinlaw's tongue because of the clacking sound that the large beans make in the wind. I
never tasted one but will go out in the yard and try one.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
I never tasted one but will go out in the yard and try one. |
bajajudy,
Before you taste one. The fleshy part of the fruit seems to go through a maturation process. It gets sweeter as it ages. But it seems to reach a stage
when it dries to such an extent that there is nothing left but the hard skin and those large seeds inside. At that point it tastes real bad. So, I
hope you hit it right. Actually, I think I saw street vendors selling these things to kids the last time I was in La Paz.
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Carob
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Is this it, Joe?
In the Caribbean they call it Flamboyant. I think in the states they call it Jakarunda(I have no idea how to spell that!). There is a game that the
Mexcian kids play with the flower. |
I am not sure. I don't think so. It's a different shade of red. It's like poinsettia red.
This tree produces a strange fruit. The fruits are hard, brown, and shaped like a pea pod. Imagine an 8 inch pea pod that is hard, brown, and
dehydrated. If you chew on this thing it tastes sort of sweet. Yeah, I just stretch over a neighbor's fence and give one a yank. One fruit can last a
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Hey skip, does it taste a little like chocolate. Giant, tough seed pods? Had one in Ca. think it's the carob tree.
[Edited on 8-24-2005 by Sharksbaja]
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Skipjack joe
At first I thought you were talking about the Tamarind tree. The seed pods are similar and edible. But after doing a search I found that Tamarind
Trees have pale yellow flowers.
A search for mother in law tounge turned up a poisonus house plant, which we also have here in Baja.
A search for flamboyant came up with Delonix regia, a tropical tree from Madagascar. It describes the seed pods but doesn't say anything about
edibility. Here is the link.
http://toptropicals.com/html/toptropicals/articles/trees/del...
burro bob
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Joe
It is the same one. In the caribbean they also call it motherinlaw's tongue because of the clacking sound that the large beans make in the wind. I
never tasted one but will go out in the yard and try one. |
You're right Judy, that's it. I googled up a bunch of images of the tree and most of them didn't ring quite true. But this one looks like right out of
out of Baja. I don't have access to photoshop so I am providing a link to the web page. It's too large for this website(>600MB). Anyone seeing this
image will immediately recognize it. Every town square has one, it seems. My research shows that it is admired by many, not just me - also called the
flame tree or the peac-ck tree. It appears on several stamps worldwide.
Sharks, it tasted more like a date from a palm to me than chocolate, but maybe I don't remember so well.
http://members.lycos.nl/gvolffen/index-84.html
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Royal Poinciana...Thats the name I couldnt remember.
Good info...Joe
Bob the motherinlaw tongue that is a house plant is the snake plant, I think. I didnt know that they were poisonous!
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Unusual hyperlinks
By the way. As you read this message scroll to the top of the page and look at the ad hyperlinks. Some of them are really unusual. Not something you
would expect for a page dealing with botany, is it?
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That is hilarious Joe
When I looked up there it said...Stinky Feet Eliminated.
Obviously from that first plant....weird, eh?
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Here's one that should look familiar to a few of you!
Mike & Robin; Full-Time RV\'ers
37\' Georgetown w/3 slides & 275 Watts of Solar Power
06 Taco TRD
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I am here
To paraphrase Frank Lloyd Wright; I\'m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let\'s start with keyboards. --
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
That is hilarious Joe
When I looked up there it said...Stinky Feet Eliminated.
Obviously from that first plant....weird, eh? |
I must be getting the X rated version of the adware compared to yours. My ad links:
"Pee Pee Stain and Odor Remover"
"Embarassing Vaginal Odor"
Maybe this is funny only to a techie. This hyperlink generating software is designed so that users who are reading a page on a certain subject may be
enticed to buy a product related to that subject. But in this case things have really gone awry.
[Edited on 8-25-2005 by Skipjack Joe]
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