Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Kirstenbosch

3 comments:

  1. Those flowers look a lot like birds of paradise (Hawaii)... do they call them something different there?

    Keith

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  2. They are one and the same. Maybe there is a Afrikaans name for them, but I don't know it.

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  3. According to the wiki the bird of paradise is indigenous to South Africa from where it was exported to europe and then america, australia, etc.

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