Igor Roshchin wrote:
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. :-)
Hawaii grew latterly in the gap between Australia and California, after
a suitable gestation period. So it's more like the demon spawn of....
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?
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