Great pics, as a fellow semi-birder, I really enjoyed the bird photos.
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Originally Posted by Cirrus
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Pineapple plants are actually a variety of
bromeliads. My dad had several varieties and hundreds of these in our yard.
Check out the movie "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery. In the movie Sean Connery plays a scientist in the South American jungle searching for cures to diseases. One of the plants he uses is a Bromeliad that grows on trees way up the canopy. They also used a lot of Bromeliads in most of the Star Trek movies and on the Next Generation tv show. In the scene at the end of the Wrath of Kahn when they pan over Spock's torpedo casket, there are Bromeliads covering the forest floor. They shot that scene at the botanical gardens in San Francisco.
The flower in the 2nd photo is a hibiscus. It's the state flower of Hawaii. The flower in the 3rd one is that of a ginger plant. We have a ginger in our front yard right by my bedroom window, and it's blooming now with about 3 or 4 pods like that one.