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Medinilla magnifica is a a beautiful tropical evergreen epiphytic shrub grown for its lush foliage and huge panicles of pink flowers endemic to the Philippines.
Medinilla is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to tropical regions of the Old World from Africaeast through Madagascar and southern Asia to the western Pacific Ocean islands. The genus was named after J. de Medinilla, governor of the Mariana Islands in 1820.
Male Romaleid grasshopper, Agriacris magnifica.
Mindo, west slope of Andes, Ecuador
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My specimen of this lovely species is growing only very slowly and is not very well. This is the best picture I have of it.
Salicaceae, China
This was part of the private collection of cacti and succulents at Manor Nursery, Angmering, West Sussex. The collection was started in 1948. The nursery is now gone. The collection has been dispersed to various new locations.
2000-07 [9 cm pot]
This plant was bought from Succulent Tissue Culture (2008-02), as Haworthia magnifica var. magnifica. Now dead.
Best viewed @ large size
Oxalidaceae - Mexico; Oaxaca State, Mexico provenance of plant above
Oxalis
Shown: Detail of inflorescence displaying flower buds and flowers
"Oxalis (pronounced /ˈɒksəlɪs/) is by far the largest genus in the wood-sorrel family Oxalidaceae: of the approximately 900 known species in the Oxalidaceae, 800 belong here. The genus occurs throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas; species diversity is particularly rich in tropical Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.
"Many of the species are known as wood-sorrels (in American English typically written "woodsorrels" or "wood sorrels") as they have an acidic taste reminiscent of the unrelated sorrel (Rumex acetosa) proper. Some species are called yellow-sorrels or pink-sorrels after the color of their flowers instead. Other species are colloquially known as false shamrocks, and some are rather misleadingly called "sourgrasses".
"The flowers have five petals, which are usually fused at the base, and ten stamens. The petal color varies from white to pink, red or yellow; anthocyanins and xanthophylls may be present or absent but are generally not both present together in significant quantities, meaning that few wood-sorrels have bright orange flowers. The fruit is a small capsule containing several seeds. The roots are often tuberous and succulent, and several species also reproduce vegetatively by production of bulbils, which detach to produce new plants." (Wikipedia)
Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California
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Departing the Cruise Terminal at 17:30 bound for Cork.
Name:MSC Magnifica
IMO:9387085
Flag:Panama
MMSI:352594000
Callsign:3FLO4
Vessel type:Passengers Ship
Gross tonnage:95,128 tons
Summer DWT:9,429 tons
Length:293 m
Beam:36 m
Draught:7.8 m
Class society:Bureau Veritas
Build year:2010
Builder :STX France
Nantes Saint Nazaire, France