Friday, 6 January 2023

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter A and Ample.  As many of you know I am in AUSTRALIA at present and was AMAZINGLY privileged to be in the Cairns Botanic Gardens on the day that the ASTONISHING rare Titan ARUM was blooming.  It was behind a high gate and had AMPLE room to grow and you could see this AMAZING event was the APPLE of this gardener's eye as he guarded it. I persuaded the guard to unlock the gate for me to go in and photograph it and the "luck of the Irish" did the trick.



AMORPHOPHALLUS titanum, the Titan ARUM, is a flowering plant in the family ARACEAE. It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The flowers have a long life span, 30-40 years, and they bloom quite rarely, on average every 7-10 years and below you can read the life cycle of this plant.
  

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On the same day I discovered ANOTHER AWESOME multicoloured bark on a tree which I am showing you ABOVE.  Both these plants and others were  observed when I was out  with a group of birders.  My final shot is my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY of two of birders ADMIRING  a bird from AFAR.




   I hope you enjoyed this post today.

I appreciate your visit and comments.

6 comments:

  1. It sounds as if you are having an amazing time - which is lovely.

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  2. That one looks like a cartoon creature with large shoes. Love it!

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  3. Wow, amazing plant and bloom ! I am glad you were able to see it. Take care, enjoy your day!

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  4. Yes, an amazing plant. Hope you have all great adventures in Australia.

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  5. This is amazing!I Is this the one that smells really bad?

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  6. I like your large plant. Photo-wise the tree-lined walkway is my favorite.
    We have one large and one small and one a single plant, Eucalyptus beds in our backyard landscaping. The single plant is 'volunteer' and grows in front of a back bedroom window. They all froze, but from roots they should come up again to bloom, a red, a pink, and the one white.

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