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westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
July 30, 2009
02:45 PM Post #6885566
| Hi all,
sorry, i don't know too many plant names! could you please ID this plant for me? looks like some sort of lily.
thanks a bunch!
westraad
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DanKistner
Winter Haven, FL
(Zone 9b)
July 30, 2009
03:10 PM Post #6885649
| Looks like some sort of anthurium. Not sure which one. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 30, 2009
05:19 PM Post #6886192
| I believe the cultivar's name is Anthurium 'Miss Mini Purple'. |
JPlunket
Vieques, PR
July 31, 2009
06:27 PM Post #6891145
| Metro, you are amazing! |
keaau749
Kea'au, HI
July 31, 2009
08:24 PM Post #6891625
| Could also be either "Regina" or "Purple Tulip" both of which are popular here on the Island of Hawai'i. Which ever it is I am surprised it has found its way to Mozambique! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
July 31, 2009
08:40 PM Post #6891697
| The bright purple flower, fading to lilac is an exact match with Anthurium 'Miss Mini Purple'. |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 01, 2009
02:34 AM Post #6892868
| Metro, you sure do know a lot of plants!
thank you everyone, i appreciate it!
i actually didn't get the it here in Mozambique, my mom got it for me at a supermarket in South africa. it seems to be doing quite well. it does grow in semi-shade to full shade, right?
westraad |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 01, 2009
02:40 AM Post #6892873
| There's numerous Anthuriums around with all sorts of colours, shapes and habits. Once they started getting out of South and Central America they rapidly spread all over the world and some are very common plants now. There's some good information on growing them on:
http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Grow or Growing Anthurium sp... |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 01, 2009
02:46 AM Post #6892890
| Hey Westraad, I'm pretty good with plants and animals. I'm all thumbs when it comes to modern technology.
These Anthurium hybrids are the most productive when grown in bright filtered sunlight, such as that found under a large shade tree. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 01, 2009
02:49 AM Post #6892894
| Hey Tropicbreeze, I thought it was well known that Anthuriums wouldn't exist without Hawai'i! |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 01, 2009
03:05 AM Post #6892906
| No, they're that widespread they're becoming naturalised in some places. To make room for all the Anthuriums brought into SE Asia and region you'd need more land area than Hawaii. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 01, 2009
03:12 AM Post #6892910
| Gosh, these continental land masses seem to get larger every day! |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 01, 2009
08:10 AM Post #6893151
| Actually, New Zealand got bigger a couple of weeks back, their west coast moved about 30 cms closer to Australia whilst their east coast moved a lot less. But the airlines aren't reducing airfares as a result of the shorter distance. |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 01, 2009
08:49 AM Post #6893250
| So you're good with animals too? i presume you have pets? we have several: 5 dogs, 1 African Gray parrot (the worst), 1 guinea pig, 1 tortoise, and one canary. we have had an owl before as well. all we need is a snake, but i am NOT a snake person! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 01, 2009
12:05 PM Post #6893858
| Be careful what you let Tropicbreeze overhear; he may be getting his stewpot ready! |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 01, 2009
11:40 PM Post #6896280
| Dogs, parrots, guinea pigs and canaries aren't on the menu. Now turtles and snakes ... that's another story. ;O) I've got 2 Long-necked Turtles (Chelodina rugosa) as pets, but lots of other animals - kangaroos, Frill-neck Lizards, snakes, and a large variety of birds that come and go as they please. They really run the place and only put up with me, provided I behave myself. |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 02, 2009
04:54 AM Post #6896708
| yeah, these Aussies almost anything, eh?
do you by any chance eat cats? Mozambicans love to make a stew out of them!
don't worry, i am a south African, and i do NOT eat cats. |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 02, 2009
07:47 AM Post #6896869
| People only eat cats here when they go out to certain restaurants, not that they know it though. ;O) |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 02, 2009
11:13 AM Post #6897442
| they serve cats in certain restaurants?!
boy, if i ever go to Australia, i'l be careful what restaurant i go to! lol |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 02, 2009
04:55 PM Post #6898580
| LOL, I'll provide the garnish.
that's a cool looking plant! |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 02, 2009
07:50 PM Post #6899269
| It's just a rumour that Chinese restaurants catch stray cats as a substitute for other meats. Illegal, but rumours persist. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 02, 2009
08:05 PM Post #6899332
| A restaurant on Maui was busted several years ago for making mana-pua (stuffed bread) with kitties. |
tropicbreeze
noonamah
Australia
August 03, 2009
02:47 AM Post #6900632
| No doubt they were well bred kitties. Well, at least afterwards. |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 03, 2009
01:40 PM Post #6902187
| Hmmm...Notty breezes are blowing..notty notty |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 04, 2009
01:48 AM Post #6905013
| Yuk! I sure am going to be more careful where i eat, and i'll avoid the Chinese!
yep, i agree on the notty breezes... |
Islandshari
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
(Zone 11)
August 04, 2009
05:04 PM Post #6907147
| Uh oh...someone pushed the button again...there they go...
LOL
Shari |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 05, 2009
01:30 AM Post #6909189
| tropicbreeze started, so don't get on my back! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 05, 2009
01:41 AM Post #6909205
| Hey Westrad, Tropicalbreeze is just looking for an easy to fix and inexpensive dinner. What is worrying you! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 05, 2009
11:33 AM Post #6910265
| I know what it is! Westraad is hungry! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 05, 2009
12:48 PM Post #6910575
| Cat stew isn't that easy to fix, i can imagine it must be hard kill and skin it. so i am not falling for his alibi for a 'easy' meal! i must admit it probably won't be too expensive...
well, to be truthful, i am hungry, but i do have food, and i think i am a better cook than tropicbreeze if he likes eay fix meals... |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 05, 2009
12:51 PM Post #6910590
| Picky Picky...try Bat stew! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 05, 2009
02:37 PM Post #6910944
| I'm glad I'm having tofu and Swiss chard for breakfast! |
Islandshari
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
(Zone 11)
August 05, 2009
04:03 PM Post #6911290
| Sorry Dave, but that sounds almost as appetizing as the cat or bat stew! Breakfast...a nice bowl of cereal...fiber, flavor, and my only source of milk anymore. Funny, for a while I had a job where I traveled 24/7 and we always ate at restaurants...I went for months without a bowl of cereal. I found myself craving wheat chex and crispix...any CEREAL! Occasionally toast or a muffin, and once a week the whole extended family goes out to brunch, but I'm happiest with some blueberries, or a banana and my cereal.
Yokwe,
Shari |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 05, 2009
04:14 PM Post #6911325
| Don't worry Shari, I surround that with bean thread noodles, garlic, ginger, bean sprouts, wakame seaweed, a little shoyu, sea salt, and sesame oil. Good for a diabetic and it tastes great! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 05, 2009
04:19 PM Post #6911343
| mmm..I love sesame oil |
Islandshari
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
(Zone 11)
August 05, 2009
06:25 PM Post #6911742
| Oh so do I! I find any excuse to dribble a bit on. But I remember many years ago I didn't realize it wasn't a cooking oil and I added some to a fryer in which I was cooking lumpia. The kitchen smells like burnt sesame oil for a week!!! Turned me off for quite a while.
Yokwe,
Shari |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 06, 2009
03:25 AM Post #6913235
| gotta agree, Shari, your breakfast sounds the most appetizing! i used to LOVE cereal, but not anymore, cause i have to use soya milk, yuk! i am lactose intolerant, tsk, tsk, poor me.
i usually have fruit, toast, and lactose free yoghurt. occasionally my desire for cereal wins over my hatred of soya milk.
lol, smelly kitchen, eh? i once fried a rotten egg without immediately realizing it was rotten... |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 06, 2009
07:13 AM Post #6913470
| and to think you turn your nose up at garnished bat stew..hmmm.
When I lived in Liberia, we didn't even get milk there. We had to use powdered milk on the cereal..ick! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 06, 2009
10:59 AM Post #6914191
| bat stew garnish, thats gross. if you are so fond of it, maybe i'l catch a few and mail them to you, and you can make your own! i am an expert at hunting bats with a rake, you know. well, at least i used to be, had to catch them to feed my owl.
i get my soya milk in south africa, it tastes better than the one we get here. |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 06, 2009
12:50 PM Post #6914608
| LOL, I had to catch bats to feed the Monitor lizard...although he preferred chicken eggs, and I don't think he was partial from the rotten ones either!
A couple of drops of vanilla into soya milk does make it taste a tad better! |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 06, 2009
01:04 PM Post #6914640
| Doesn't Texas have a lot of bats? What was the garnish?
Vanilla makes everything taste better! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 06, 2009
01:20 PM Post #6914710
| Cockatoo feathers sent from Australia (thanks breeze!)
You could say we have a lot of bats...! This is the nightly exodus in my neighborhood..I think you might have seen it already.
http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=rj... |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 06, 2009
01:28 PM Post #6914749
| No wonder Hawaiian bats are rare. Looks like there are more bats in one colony in Texas, than in the whole State of Hawai'i! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 07, 2009
01:26 AM Post #6917504
| i'l try the vanilla, though i doubt it will take the bitterish nutty taste away. but its worth a try!
you know, i am not very fond of reptiles, they only type i like are turtles and tortoises. lizards and iguanas remind me too much of snakes!
sorry, coudn't open the link, our internet is too slow. but we also have A LOT of bats here, our neighbour's house across the street have about 2000 bats in their roof, and i am not joking! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 07, 2009
11:24 AM Post #6918524
| I believe you, my brother and I use to wait at the eve of our house to watch the bats come out. |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 07, 2009
01:18 PM Post #6918998
| i know about a church team who once rented a house close by for a week, it has A LOT of bats in its roof. and its ceiling isn't cement, can't remember what it was. anyway, the one morning they were eating breakfast, and the one lady, was chatting, and then looked back at her plate, and thought: "i didn't put peper on my eggs, did I?" it was powder from above, you can guess what it was! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 07, 2009
01:33 PM Post #6919048
| ROTLOL!!!...
sounds like it fits in with the menus listed on the thread here! |
Islandshari
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
(Zone 11)
August 07, 2009
03:58 PM Post #6919513
| Oohhhhhhh gag!!!!!!! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 08, 2009
12:50 AM Post #6921488
| thankfully she realized what it was and didn't eat it. but yeah, gross!!
but it does fit in nicely with bat stew garnish, don't you think?
i heard that it makes very good garden manure, though i stick to cow or pig manure. |
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI
August 08, 2009
02:22 AM Post #6921620
| Sounds kinda like finding half a worm in your apple! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 11, 2009
03:21 AM Post #6933516
| Hey RJ, thanks a bunch for the tip on vanilla! i tried it, and it tastes SO MUCH better! not the same as fresh milk, but its edible! i am enjoying my cornflakes everymorning now.
westraad |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 11, 2009
06:04 AM Post #6933623
| Right on Westraad! We learn these little tips to make life better! It is never the same as fresh milk, but much more tolerable!
I'm getting anxious now, in Liberia and the west coast of Africa they are in the very stormy wet season..such thunderstorms and lightning like I've never seen. I'm anxious, because these are where the Hurricanes are born, then the steam across the Atlantic and pound the nation Islands, and east U.S. coast. We had a huge Hurricane hit us last September. It took me months to dig out of that one.
I meant to ask, are you originally from Africa, or S. Africa..I forgot. |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 12, 2009
03:10 AM Post #6937456
| hope you don't get too bad hurricanes, those can destroy your garden. I am a South African, my heritage is Dutch. |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 12, 2009
03:27 AM Post #6937462
| Amongst other things!
Okay, Dutch. Do you speak Flemish? Sorry about spelling! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 12, 2009
10:58 AM Post #6938310
| We speak Afrikaans at home, very, very similar to Flemish. its basically the same. Afrikaans is also very close to Dutch. if a Dutch person speaks slowly, i can understand what he says.
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rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 12, 2009
12:18 PM Post #6938590
| LOL, sounds like the English in Liberia. My brother and I picked up the English slang very fast, and could talk to one another with out the parents understanding a word! |
westraad
Xai Xai
Mozambique
August 13, 2009
01:55 AM Post #6941211
| Lol, i do that with my sister in Portuguese, but my dad can understand. but my mom, usually doesn't have a clue.
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