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This week will be the first of two posts in which I’m featuring photos of flowers that I saw while in Hawaii. I have no idea what they are, so feel free to chime in if you can identify them.
Above is a flower from the Kona area. This is one of my favorite flower photos from our trip.
The flowers above were on a beach on the big island.
The purple flowers above and the rest that follow are all from the Kona area also.
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Oh, my goodness. These are gorgeous – I wonder if I could plant them in my garden? I thought the first one was a hibiscus, but I’m not so sure. All of them are absolutely beautiful in color!
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Those are beautiful. I love the colors of tropical flowers. It seems like everything in warm climates has some kind of bloom. The first flower is a hibiscus. That’s the only one I know.
The first one IS Hibiscus. I use the leaves and flowers for my hair. I boil them in my hair oil and apply it after it cools. Helps in hair fall.
Last one is Plumaria rubra forma bicolor: Botanical name otherwise known as Frangipani . We call it Kath Champa in India. I will try to post pictures of that next week.
I do know the second and third ones in Hindi but don’t know the 4th one at all…
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Oh, I love the flowers in Hawaii (I love everything Hawaii, period!). After my first and only trip (thus far) to Hawaii, I went home and bought most of the plants that you have pictured: hibiscus, (don’t know the second picture), bougainvillea, African tulip tree (this one grows to be a huge tree, so I couldn’t plant it in my tiny garden), and plumeria. They didn’t do so well in my hot, dry, soCal garden, then we moved away. Bougainvillea is pretty common in soCal, but the rest seemed to suffer. The smell of plumeria in the air in Hawaii – heaven.
Thanks for the pictures – I could use a little Hawaii.
Gorgeous colors. I love tropical flowers.
Beautiful flowers! I’d really love to go to Hawaii some day.
As gorgeous as tropical flowers are, I think my favorite one is still the little violet colored beach flower you posted. It’s so sweet
I love the top hibiscus as well, but that lower lilac colored flower is awesome as well – thanks for sharing with us.
The hibiscus in the first photo is gorgeous! So are the rest. That’s one of the things about Hawaii I loved.
Hawaii has the most gorgeous flora and fauna! They are just full of colors and varieties that you don’t see here.
Absolutely gorgeous flowers! Thanks for sharing…I’m glad some of the readers can identify them. I’m not knowledgeable about flower names…LOL
Thanks Jennifer!1
How did I NOT remember Bougainvillea?!!!
Now I remember. The second picture is of Morning Glory. These are available in various hues and shades!
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I knew the first one was Hibiscus and I thought the second one was a variety of Morning Glory. We have Morning Glories that grow wild along the coast here in Nova Scotia as well but they are more the colour of the deeper violet stripe in the ones shown here, with a stripe of white and/or yellow.
I don’t know the other flowers at all but the leafy mauve one is gorgeous!
Still tempting us with Hawaii pictures I see.
Absolutely beautiful!
So colorful!
I was so proud of myself for knowing some of the flower names, but I see that others have already identified them for you. Gorgeous stuff!
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I love flowers, they are one of my favorite photography subjects. Yours are beautiful.
Beautiful flowers! I love hibiscus flowers. They are so big and beautiful. I have a very similar photo to your beach morning glory (second photo) that I took on a Texas beach. Have a great weekend!
Gorgeous. I hear the flowers in Hawaii are awesome. I have not visited yet.
I say this one be one of the BIGest reasons I’d love to go to Hawaii.
I love these pictures. Flowers are so pretty and I often find myself taking pictures of them when I’m away on vacation to.
They are all gorgeous flowers! My son went to Hawaii but he didn’t take any pictures of flowers. Men!
Those are beautiful flowers. We can grow a few her in Southern California, like the hibiscus and bougainvillea, but the plumeria is a tricky one to grow here.
They are beautiful! In my mind, they’re growing wild all over Hawaii. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful pictures! The first one is a hibiscus. We have one at our house.
I’m pretty sure the first one is a hibiscus. I know that only because my neighbor has some and I was admiring them and asked what they were.
So many beautiful flowers. The first are hibiscus, as others have said, and the second are morning glories.
I have my morning glories trained on a trellis and so they’re growing skyward. Will post a photo of them soon as they’re beginning to bloom and soon there will be many more flowers. Watch my blog http://storygal.wordpress.com/
How pretty. I just love tropical flowers.