Yesterday, we visited the Botanical Gardens. It's a little early in the spring for most things, but there were some outdoor plants to see and the greenhouses were fun. It was a beautiful day and I saw many plans that I haven't seen before.
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| Flowering tree outside |
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| Fascinating drooping flowers |
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| Interesting three leaved plant |
Inside, we saw some beautiful tropical flowers. There were some flowers on long vines above a pond. The plant was maybe 30 feet above the pond, but the flowers had grown down to nearly touching the water. Really cool looking: just flowers hanging in space.
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| These look like eggs to me |
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| Hanging by a thread |
We also saw and smelled a plant I had heard of, but never seen before. A "
corpse flower" smells like rotting meat and has a large flower. We saw an
amorphophalus konjac or Devil's Tongue or Voodoo Lily. Wow,
what a smell! It was like
ripe road kill. Fascinating, but I didn't want to get too close.
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| Stinktastic! |
I will likely visit the gardens again in a few weeks when more things are in bloom. It was a very serene place.
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