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In Central America flowers are EVERYWHERE! The roadsides, wooded areas, jungles and everybody's back yard are teeming with floral splendor. Some very beautiful flowers are on weeds, very small and usually unnoticed. Others are huge and showy. These are just a few I found while hiking in the jungles. Some are in our yard and my wife's garden.
Anthers of a lily found by a little stream.
Very tiny flowers on weeds I have to cut from our yard occasionally. They look like cookies and gumdrops.
A domesticated flower known locally as "Camarones" because they resemble the bodies of shrimp.
Izote flowers. They're tall plants, not really trees, and are hard to get to, but the flowers are edible. They taste somewhat like cabbage. They grow wild everywhere.
Banana blossom with baby bananas. These grow wild like weeds. In fact, they ARE weeds, not trees at all.
La Rosa de Guadalupe. This rose celebrates the miracle of the roses that bloomed in winter.
An Alcatraz Lily, growing wild beside a stream.
Unidentified wild flower in the jungle.
Another wild jungle flower growing directly from the stem.
A rather primitive variety of yellow orchid growing wild in the jungle near Yuscarán, Honduras. If you look closely, and use a little imagination, you can see a jaguar face in the center.
This is one of the strangest flowers I've ever encountered in the jungle. It's a large plant, somewhat resembling a pineapple, with holes in the sides where the pineapple sections would be. In each hole is a little "snake head" peeping out. These little "heads" even have FANGS!
In my wife's zinnia garden.
A guava blossom with baby guavas. These grow wild everywhere. Burros get fat on guavas.
I'm not sure what these are, but blossoms on some tropical fruit tree.
One of thousands of varieties of roadside flowers.
And there are tens of thousands of other tropical flowers sparkling in the sunshine and rain of Central America.
Anthers of a lily found by a little stream. Very tiny flowers on weeds I have to cut from our yard occasionally. They look like cookies and gumdrops. A domesticated flower known locally as "Camarones" because they resemble the bodies of shrimp. Izote flowers. They're tall plants, not really trees, and are hard to get to, but the flowers are edible. They taste somewhat like cabbage. They grow wild everywhere. Banana blossom with baby bananas. These grow wild like weeds. In fact, they ARE weeds, not trees at all. La Rosa de Guadalupe. This rose celebrates the miracle of the roses that bloomed in winter. An Alcatraz Lily, growing wild beside a stream. Unidentified wild flower in the jungle. Another wild jungle flower growing directly from the stem. A rather primitive variety of yellow orchid growing wild in the jungle near Yuscarán, Honduras. If you look closely, and use a little imagination, you can see a jaguar face in the center. This is one of the strangest flowers I've ever encountered in the jungle. It's a large plant, somewhat resembling a pineapple, with holes in the sides where the pineapple sections would be. In each hole is a little "snake head" peeping out. These little "heads" even have FANGS! In my wife's zinnia garden. A guava blossom with baby guavas. These grow wild everywhere. Burros get fat on guavas. I'm not sure what these are, but blossoms on some tropical fruit tree. One of thousands of varieties of roadside flowers.And there are tens of thousands of other tropical flowers sparkling in the sunshine and rain of Central America.
