South
American Flowers
For pictures of flowers from our other travels click here.
Other web pages showing our trip to South America can be found here
Colombia, Panama Canal, Ecuador, Peru, Arica Chile, LaSerena Chile,
Valparaiso
and Santiago
Chile, The
rest of
the trip, and South
American Flowers
Cartagena,
Colombia
Most
of our time in Cartagena was spent on a bus, in a mangrove swamp, or on
the beach, not the best places to find flowers.
There
are a couple pictures of ones we saw in the mangroves on the Colombia
page.
We did get pictures of a few and
saw many
more from the bus.
We
hope to go back when we can spend more time and see more.
Panama
canal
On our trip through the
canal we
never left the ship, there just wasn't time for a stop.
We did see this
poinsettia tree.
Quite a bit bigger than
any I have
seen used as Christmas decorations.
Agua
Blanka,
Ecuador
These bromeliads had no
trouble
growing on the power lines through the village.
These had wickedly sharp
points on
their foliage.
Other flowers we saw in
or near the
village.
Something seems to have
been eating
the papaya plant.
From the village we went
down to the
seashore where we found these.
Lima,
Peru
None of these were wild,
they were
all found in gardens.
Arica,
Chile
This is a dry area so
these flowers
are in a little garden near the church.
We discovered these in
this very
inhospitable rocky, dry, and cold locale.
Where there a little moisture we saw candelabra cactus.
There are large areas with too little moisture for even them.
LaSerena,
Chile
We tried tasting the
fruit of the
pepper tree. not a true pepper.
It has a not unpleasant
slightly
spicy flavor but if you crack the seed the not very pleasant woody
flavor stays with you for hours.
Other plants we saw in
gardens and
parks around town.
Some wildflowers from
near the dam we
stopped at on our way back to the ship.
For pictures of flowers from our other travels click here.
Other web pages showing our trip to South America can be found here
Colombia, Panama Canal, Ecuador, Peru, Arica Chile, LaSerena Chile,
Valparaiso
and Santiago
Chile, The
rest of
the trip, and South
American Flowers
We want to thank our friends from the trip Fran and Frank,
Esther
and
Michael, Bill and Lorraine for sharing their photos with us and for you.
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other places we have visited here.
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