Today we took the bus into 'downtown' Honolulu to visit the Foster Botanical Garden - a collection of tropical trees (some over 150 years old) from many different parts of the world, together with palms, orchids and 'prehistoric' ferns.
In common with other tropical trees that we have seen, many of the trees had both flower, immature and mature fruit on the tree at the same time.
The Cocks-Spur Coral Tree has brightly colored flowers growing on small leafy stems growing directly out of the trunk of the tree.
Many of the trees were heavy with fruit.
This Pummelo was not a large tree but it was certainly laden..
Nearby was a tree with unusual shaped fruit, known as The Buddha's Hand..
Some of the fruits were very oddly shaped..
The flower on the other hand was quite delicate..
One of the most unusual trees was the Cannonball tree..
All around the base of the tree were very large, hard, brown seeds, maybe 4 or 5 inches across, together with a notice advising that you watch out for falling ones! Apparently the large seeds contain a foul smelling blue pulp which is attractive to foraging animals.
The flower was most unusual but quite spectacular..
Certainly some amazing trees!
Arthur would have loved the trees after all the comments about trees around and about Reston!!!!
ReplyDeleteThere certainly are some interesting trees.
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