April 9

I thought I would add some of the great flora found in Fiji.  I never get tired of looking out the car window and almost always I notice some flower, bush, or tree that I had not noticed before.  I wish I had majored in Botany so I could name all of these.  Ah well, looking and appreciating will have to be enough.

Believe it or not this is a variegated
philodendron plant
These leaves are a good 18" long.

The leaves in the picture on the left
are a close up of these leaves which are
wound around this palm tree.

When we see
plants that
grow in the
USA here in
Fiji, the plant
is bigger!  In fact many of our
perennials flowers are actually bushes here.            

For lack of a better name,
this is a fan palm.

Interesting Fijian Flora

The Whole Tree

These flowers only come out in the early fall.  One nice thing about them is that the flower lasts weeks.

More of the Tree