Avocado

Avocado

3/21/2015 Plantation

Because I was so glad to find Avocado Flowers:-)

ややこしいのだけど、要するにアボカドは雌花と雄花が同居してはいても
２日しか花が開かず、一日目に雄花（だか雌花）そして
二日目に雌花（だか雄花）が開くので、
お二人が出会う機会がメチャ少ないのだそう。
実をつけるのがなかなか、という植物だったのですね。
二日しか開かない花にこの時偶然出会ったとは
貴重な写真です＾＾

8/2/2015 Plantation
その貴重な花から結構たくさんの実がついています。

Copper Leaf Plant

Copper Leaf Plant

 Copper Leaf Plant = Acalypha wildesiana
Family: Euphorbiaceae

3/15/2015 Plantation

Evergreen shrub with large and broad leaves with 

finely haired.  The flowers are pinkish spikes, 

no petals.  They have separate male and 

female flowers on the same plant.

The male flowers are in long spikes which

hang downwards, while female flowers are in short spikes.

The photo above is more likely the female.

和名：ニシキアカリファ

Rainbow Eucalyptus

Mindanao Gum / Rainbow Eucalyptus =  Eucalyptus deglupta

Family: Myrtaceae

Origin: Philippines

コアラの故郷オーストラリア生まれ「ではない」種類の
ユーカリの木です。幹が色とりどりになるのが特徴。
以前撮った写真を探したら、リザードがくっついていました＾＾
最近、花の咲いている木を見つけて、
幹が色とりどりではなかったために始めは分からなかったのですが、
上皮がはがれているのに気づいて、
あ～～もしかして！と調べたら当たりでした！
クリーム色っぽい白の花、なかなかきれいです。

This is one of the few Eucalyptus NOT native to Australia. 

It grows to well over 100 feet tall.

The bark is unusual and attractive. 

Patches of outer bark are shed annually at different times, 

showing a bright green inner bark. This then darkens and 

matures to give blue, purple, orange and maroon tones.

03/03/2008 Miami Metro Zoo

The colorful bark

(with a big lizard.....)

03/28/2015 Plantation
The flowers

3/28/2015 Plantation
Flowers and fruits

Air Plants (Ball Moss, Quill-Leaf, Spanish Moss)

Ball Moss =  Tillandsia recurvata

Family: Bromeliaceae (Pineapple family)

8/31/14 Lauderhill

Lauderhill, 3/27/2019

10" ball shaped cluster of carved, tangled and 

silver-scaled stems and leaves.

Rootless, it needs physical support from other plants, 

but it doesn't take nutrients and water from its host, 

but from the atmosphere and rain. 

It causes no harm to the host trees.

= Epiphyte

8/24/14 Plantation

Flower is purple and has three petals

Quill-Leaf = Tillandsia fasciculata

Family: Bromeliaceae

Native to Central America, Mexico, West Indies

24" grows on Cypress and Pine trees, 

flowers are 6", red and yellow.

8/31/14 Lauderhill

2/1/2015Lauderhill
Every single one has a few flowers on every tree!!

Spanish Moss = Tillandsia usneoides

Family: Bromeliaceae

Grows hanging from tree branches of

Live Oak or Bald Cypress trees.

The plant has a slender stem 

(bearing alternate)

thin, curved and curly.
Heavily scaled leaves 2 - 6 cm(0.8" - 2.3")

long and 1 mm(0.04") broad, 

that grow in chain-like fashion 

to form hanging up to 6 m(240").

It has been used for building insulation,

mulch, packing materials and

mattress stuffing.

8/31/14 Lauderhill

03/13/15 Lauderhill Found flower!

Flax Lily

Flax Lily = Dianella tasmanica 'variegata'

Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)

8/29/14 Luderhill

After the lavender blue flowers, 

showy deep blue fruits come. 

The fruits is shiny turquoise blue berries 

and lasting from fall into winter.

Foliage were used in making baskets.

8/17/14 flower buds, Plantation

English Spinach / Gendola

8/2/2014 at friend's house in Plantation

English Spinach / Vine Spinach / Gendola 

= Basella alba

Family: Basellaceae

Origin: Tropical Asia

The leaf and stem are edible, 

used in Chinese cooking.  

The leaf are very rich in Vitamin A and C, 

Iron and Calcium.

Low in calories by volume 

and high in protein per calorie.

                                                                          the seed

ツルムラサキ

葉と茎が食用となる。

ほうれん草に似た味で、

モロヘイヤやや似た独特の

ぬめりと粘り気がある。

中華料理では木耳菜（ムーアルツアイ）

またはサーンチョイと呼ばれて

炒め物に使われ、

日本では沖縄で栽培され

地紅（じゅびん）と呼ばれて

お浸しや味噌汁にする。

Ruddy Daggerwing Butterfly

 Ruddy Daggerwing = Marpesia petreus

Brushfoot Family

 Photos taken at Hampton Pines Park, North Lauderdale 4/30/2014