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The Numbers Game #90

Aphelandra sinclairiana.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 212, which turned up a selection dominated by plants, so I’ve gone for an all-plant line up. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

From the garden

A Red heliconia at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
A very red heliconia.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘National Garden Month.’ See more responses here. I don’t really have a garden here, but I do enjoy a visit to Hawai’i Tropical Botanical Garden, so here are some photos from my most recent visit.

Aphelandra sinclairiana

Aphelandra sinclairiana flowerAphelandra sinclairiana

Aphelandra sinclairiana, is a shrub commonly known as Coral Aphelandra, orange shrimp plant, or, as this one was labeled, Panama Queen. It’s native to Central America, but this one was at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, near Hilo.

For more information about Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, go to htbg.com.

Posted in response to this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, ‘I’d rather be…,’ because I’d rather be out looking at flowers.