Dwarf Poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) cultivated on the James Cook University Campus, Stuart, near Townsville, Queensland. Photographed on 5 April 1973.Native to the tropical americas.Digitised from a slide. www.inaturalist.org/observations/55538192
This is the rainy season in the Philippines, and it hasn't stopped pissing down for 5 weeks now. So I am playing around, making up new pctures, and enhancing old ones.
Caesalpinia pulcherrimaPride-of-Barbados. After many years of thinking this was an orchid, I have learned it is a beanFabaceae. It is the national flower of Barbados. One of it's common name: Poinciana is confusing because it is also the name of a Caribbean tree that was the subject of the World War II-era song. Photographed on Kauai using Canon T90 with a Canon FD 50 mm macro lens and a Canon ringlight. Thanks to WLCutler for help with the identification. .
Dwarf Poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) cultivated on the James Cook University Campus, Stuart, near Townsville, Queensland. Photographed on 5 April 1973.Native to the tropical americas.Digitised from a slide. www.inaturalist.org/observations/55538192
plants on steep slope of accumulated volcanic rhyolitic tuff rubble and alluvium of lower canyon in deciduous small tree forest with Acacia, Ipomoea, Bursera, Celtis, Lysiloma. A colorful naturalized species sometimes common along the river but more often reduced by occasional freezes and scouring floods.