Pages

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Flower Photos: What the Heck Are These Things ?

They Look Like Xmas Decorations

 

For more than a few months, I've been meaning to identify these flowers.

So far, they don't seem to want to cooperate.

So, I just shot a bunch of them and will let someone else tell me.


They are bright red flowers hanging from some evergreen-looking stems.


 A few years ago, I couldn't tell you those white flowers were lilies but, I know now.


Here's a closer look for you to get a sense of scale.


The red rascals were growing along the road going up to Mt. Tachuu on Ie Jima, Okinawa.


Dodging traffic, I went up and down the road shooting from different angles.


When the wind and rain started coming after me, I left.

Pentax cameras and lenses are made for this kind of stuff, not me.

Does anyone know what those plants could be ?

I'm tired of fooling with them.

Give me an ID and you can have any or, all of those photos !


UPDATE: Best friend in the Land Down Under gave me the ID

Russelia equisetiformis


Firecracker Plant

 





5 comments:

  1. I'd love to tell you, but I'm clueless. Great photos. Can I guess and have them anyway? LOL

    ReplyDelete
  2. Okispice,
    Aw c'mon, you must know somebody wjo knows. Trick them into giving you the name and, I'll email a huge, printable photo file to you !

    ReplyDelete
  3. My sister told me firecracker, but looks like someone beat me to it. ;)
    Theresa

    ReplyDelete
  4. A dude in Australia beat ya to it !

    ReplyDelete
  5. Well, we win some we lose some. But we learned something in the process, so no complaints here.
    Theresa

    ReplyDelete

Be nice. Keep comments clean. All moderated. Spam not tolerated. Posting a URL or Link on blog comments is considered SPAM.
The Advertising Department will be glad assist you and we'll all get filthy rich together !

Cheers,
Mike