Looking down at a cacao tree from the walkway. See the two orange pods hanging off the trunk, upper right quadrant?
I wonder if this opened up a lot more, or if this was as open as it was going to get.
These are cashews. What we read is that the actual nut is in that cashew-nut-shaped thing below the "apple" Doesn't it seem weird that the apples grow and grow, but the nut part apparently stays about the same? Curious.
Looking down at huge bromeliads. These are at least a yard tall. Maybe four feet or so.
Oh my. I think this is my favorite plant of July 6. This smells amazing. Fruity, floral..... Wonderful. Love this plant. (And -- here's a look at one of the walkways I've been talking about.)
All that fuss made over the agave, but this................ Wow.............
We tore ourselves away from the red and pink extravaganza, with the intent to look, at ground level (where it is planted), to see if we could figure out what it was.
Walking on. Really big fern. I know I've read that there were tree-sized ferns in the age of the dinosaurs. Perhaps this is their smaller descendant.
Waterfall. With bromeliads on top.
Humming "Incense, peppermints" under my breath.................
They really have a very nice collection of bromeliads!
Someone has a sense of humor..............
More bromeliads.
Now we are back on ground level, in the temperate section.
This sign went with the little guy(s?) above....... Good luck, little one(s). I hope you thrive here........
We saw this mango tree on the 30th. The mangoes are bigger now........... The biggest of these was less than 3" long, if I remember correctly.
Like the red with the green...........
Another look at the succulents under the kaleidoscopes.
This one was labeled "tree fern"........
A closer look at its new leaf..........
A ferny ground cover. This was no more than a foot tall.
Here's a glance at the interesting collection of epiphytes from southeast Asia that we looked at on May 30. A lot of very different-looking objects...........
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