Monday, January 11, 2010

Flowers & Fruit

One of my pitcher plants has flowered. The petal color is unbelieveable; I wish this photo could do it justice. Unfortunately, these flowers droop so the insides are difficult to see.










I harvested one lemon for Thanksgiving but the other 18 are still attached. They are smaller than the one I took, but still larger than a golf ball. I heard a report on the news today about when the oranges get colder they get sweeter. I wonder if that holds true for Meyer Lemons?

This orange stalk holds the fruit of this Cataractarum palm. The berries are like olives--green when young, black when ripe. I doubt these are fit to eat, and they might even be poisonous.







These three young palm trees show a great deal of variety. The light green palm in the upper right is a Manilla palm, an Areca relative. The lower center palm is a Chusan palm, a fan palm. The palm in the upper left is a Pygmy Date, a pinate palm.