Blooms of the week

Week of November 6, 2023

Hospitality Greenhouse
- Insectivorous plants in the terrarium.
- Flowers: red ginger, pendent heliconia, blue ginger, tropical pitcher plant and more.
- Fruits: screw pine
Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse
- Flowers: some bromeliads and orchids, lollypop plant, spider lily, Queen Emma lily and more.
- Colourful leafs carpet the ground and Spanish moss serves as a backdrop.
Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse
- Fruits: banana tree, papaya, mandarin orange tree, coconut palm, grapefruit tree, lemon drop mangosteen, naranjilla, starfruit tree, limeberry tree, akee and more.
- Flowers: soursop tree, cacao tree and more.
Orchids and Aroids Greenhouse
- Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids.
- Some aroids are also in bloom, such as tailflowers and peace lilies.
Ferns Greenhouse
- Fascinating staghorn ferns and tree ferns.
- Beautiful maidenhair ferns.
- Plant walls.
- Blue strap fern with iridescent fronds.
Begoniaceae and Gesneriads Greenhouse
- Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
- Colourful blooms: begonias, goldfish plant, tree gloxinia, medinilla, passion flower, rhytidophyllum, chirita and more.
- Beautiful plant walls.
Arid Regions Greenhouse
- Flowers: crown of thorns, pachypodium, carrion flower and more.
- Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear
- Over 80-year-old elephant foot trees (next to the doors of the Hacienda).
Hacienda
- Flowers: pachypodium (in a pot), stonecrop and more.
- Fruits: wickerware cactus
- Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera
Garden of Weedlessness
- Beautiful penjings
- Flowers: leopard plant
Main Exhibition Greenhouse

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