Wed Aug 5 19:44:51 CDT 2009 Rob Studdert wrote: > On 06/08/2009, Igor Roshchin <str at komkon.org> wrote: > > > > Rob, > > There are some very nice images that I enjoyed. > > I particularly like the second flower. > > > > The first flower also grows in Southern California > > (San Diego): > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Flowers3/pages/DCP_0152.htm > > > > I suspect that Australia at some point broke off from Southern California. > > :-) > > Hi Igor, > > Thanks, that flower is Carpobrotus rossii, locally it's known as > Pigface, though I have no idea why. I'm sure we did break off the US > some time ago, don't you guys also have Macadamias? ;-)
I always thought that Macadamias are from Hawaii, but turns out California also has produces it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadamia I guess that suggests that Hawaii broke off from Australia as the latter was departing from California. :-) As for Carpobrotus, and as far as I know it is called either Chilean Seafig or Coastal Iceplant. In San Diego, some of them have yellow flowers: http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Flowers/Bee-n-flower1024.jpg What is the flower that was the 2nd one in your collection? Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
