Piper Magnificum from Peru -- I had a hard time getting the flowers to photograph in the dim light. If you are not viewing this in slide show mode, please click on "view album" in the upper left of this page, push PF11, and then click on the "slideshow" button.
Piper Magnificum
Cat's Whiskers -- these can take up the whole stem but didn't when we saw it
New Guinea Black Ti
Schubertii Ti
These elephant-ear like vines are common
A Cocoa plant from Central America
You eat the seeds after a bit of processing
This spectacular spathiphyllum (a relative of the anthurium) (p 119) was near the bird cage
These are thought to be originally from Columbia
A few more lily lake photos
Several bamboo types thrive here
The Ceratozamia are endemic to the mountainous areas of Mexico and most of the 16-18 species are endangered. Poaching is a big danger for their continued survival
Guidebooks claim that the trade winds bang the bamboo shoots together imitating the sound of African drums -- but we didn't notice that (and it would be hard to hear above the sounds of the babbling brook, waterfall, and surging surf of Onomea Bay
A typical walkway
Dracaena Marginata
Brazilian Snapdragon
costus stenophyllus (confirmed) these have ginger-like flowers at their roots (but not blooming here)
The British in Singapore named this the Red Sealing Wax Plant because the trunk was the color of the wax they used to seal important documents. This is the only Red Sealing Wax Plant in all of Hawaii known to produce seeds.
