
04-02-2012, 09:27 PM
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Pretty ^^^
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08-15-2012, 07:10 AM
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Our ornamental ginger is throwing some flowers.
These are a little bigger than a tennis ball, on a 3 ft stalk.
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08-15-2012, 07:21 PM
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We have forms of ornamental ginger here too but the flowers are more cone like.
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08-15-2012, 08:15 PM
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There are probably a gazillion gingers.
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09-02-2012, 08:38 PM
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A totally different ginger (just found this one hidden behind a leaf), with a Heliconia in the background.
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09-02-2012, 09:15 PM
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09-02-2012, 09:47 PM
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This is a crab-claw Heliconia, pretty even before it opens.
The green ant on the tip is a bit over 1/2 inch long, they're nasty, nomadic meat eaters and their bums taste of lemon.
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09-03-2012, 08:07 AM
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I try really hard not to go around tasting bums. 
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09-03-2012, 02:35 PM
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The ants only live up here in the tropics. Aboriginal kids used to eat the ant tails as a kind of flavour burst. You can smell the lemon when you crush them. Nasty rotten things they are. They colonise a plant, pulling leaves together to form a nest. A new generation is hatched and then they move on.
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09-12-2012, 05:52 PM
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The crab-claw and the ginger have opened.
Also, a confrontation between a grren ant and a native stingless bee.
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09-12-2012, 09:13 PM
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So lovely.
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