Friday, September 23, 2005

He took 'em himself!

As I'd mentioned earlier, Pablo's been divesting his memory card of old images. Here are some from last year's trip to Hawaii which came to me under the title of "Haleakala Flora:"



Silversword or `Ahinahina (which I believe means “gray-haired”)

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Its relative na`ena`e, classed in a different genus, though they are like enough to hybridize sometimes.



These are related to sunflowers and evolved like the nene from North American organisms that somehow got blown very far away once.

1 comment:

Sissy Willis said...

Dubautia menziesi, I presume?

Silver Sword Alliance

Isn't Google awesome? :)