Showing posts with label botany in egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botany in egypt. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

May flowers. Canna blooms





Canna plant





This year this nursery garden does not seem as well tended as last year. i have not seen this many black jack plant in one place not even on scrub land.
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Another Canna bloom

and some times there is a bloom worth taking a photo of . like these next four photos.
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Or even a whole bed of pink and red blooms
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Canna bloom
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Canna bloom
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This tree has beautifull red flowers in March now the leaf shapes look like green butterflies




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one flower from the tree this acacia flowers almost all the year
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Hibiscus ornamental flowers of which there is seven verieties,

The hibiscus plant unlike the flowering hibiscus this plant has no open blooms and is picked for its flower petals to make the hibiscus drink.


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The lufer plant I took one of the seeds out of the dying plant'
this particular plant is the one on here .and has been cut from near the root

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But not before one of the birds picked one of the seeds and dropped it near the mother plant. one is growing up this electricity pylon and another is growing up one of the nearby palm trees.






Papya tree and blossom both the trees survived the demolition on Banana island.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Thistle blooms

Thistle flower


Above the Datura plant (angel trumpet)
This is some type of conifer?

and this seems to be one of the thistle family


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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Cacti flower Near the law courts of Luxor


1500 lawyers 12 judges plus all the crooks including the police get to see this beautifull flower, thats if they can lift the nose off the ground, I wonder how many have noticed this plant.
the on duty guard gave me a very inquisitive look but no one else noticed the mad welshman taking photos of a cactuss flower. such beauty amongst all this evil.

its also one of the only plants the Muslims put on the graves. I took a distant shot of a bloom in the Sheik Aly Musa Mosque graveyard this last week. another one of these plants on the promanade has my name engraved on it . not by me but someone who could spell tony.

Gardens in Luxor





plants of egypt

Butterflies are on http://insectsonwings.blogspot.com/




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