Flowering Maple Photos
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Peach Lantern
This is one of my favorite flowers. I don't usually see them in peach though. It took a very low angle to get this shot, as the name suggests they kind of hang down like lanterns or bells. I was almost sitting on the ground.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Chinese Lantern
One if my favorite day-trips is to San Luis Obispo. There
is an old mill there that has been converted into a hotel
they still use the water wheel to make small batches of Ice Cream.
Right by the water wheel is this beautiful plant. It is called
a Chinese Lantern, Chinese Bellflower or Flowering Maple. The latter
because of it's Maple shaped leaves, although there is no relation.
There is another plant [Physalis alkekengi] that is also commonly called
a Chinese Lantern, it's closely related to the Tomato and the Tomatillo.
It's lantern is closed at the bottom, rather than open like these.
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