A blog where I post a mixture of photos that I have taken and find amusing, interesting, artistic, surprising or strange.
Saturday, 17 August 2013
FUCHSIA
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in about 1696-1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
I had the occasion to visit here once, but do not remember these pretty flowers.
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Lea
Lea's Menagerie
Interesting looking flowers, so pretty nevertheless.
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