Comments on: Ishigaki Day 3: Floral Quiz on Taketomi Island

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:43:12 +0000

I've posted the answer here.

By: parv

parv — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:13:56 +0000

I say deep|dark pink bougainvillea.

By: Ron Evans

Ron Evans — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:44:47 +0000

“line the lane…” This may be a Do’h moment. I’m going with Goldenrod!

By: Earnest Barr in Amami, Japan

Earnest Barr in Amami, Japan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:42:52 +0000

LOL, I just now noticed the parenthesis in nils’ comment. I looked everywhere for that stupid spelling!

By: Earnest Barr in Amami, Japan

Earnest Barr in Amami, Japan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:31:18 +0000

My mother in law has some shrub type vines that produce flowers like those. . Are they bougainvillea red? I’m not very confident about this. She used to have orange ones and some that are almost yellow, but she calls all of them “bugenbiria” in Japanese. I’m probably thinking of an entirely different flower. As I was looking for the proper spelling online, I came across a site that had a bunch of varieties with photos. One particular one that looked like the ones my mother-in-law has, which looks like the ones in your photo, is called “Scarlet O’Hara”. So if they are the same flower, maybe scarlet?

In the end, I don’t know what color they are. I just took a stab.

By: Peter in Wales

Peter in Wales — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:44:50 +0000

Ha-ha – white !

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:27:10 +0000

No one’s even remotely close, so I’ll give a hint: being a botanist might help

By: JasonP

JasonP — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:35:26 +0000

…they’re the same color as your shirt

Did I win?

By: Ron Evans

Ron Evans — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:36:19 +0000

Would that be Fuschia? – Ron Evans, Fort Lee, NJ

By: nils

nils — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:03:01 +0000

I’ll say magenta. (bougainvillea?)
On Saturday at work one woman was wearing a solid yellow blouse, and another was wearing a solid magenta blouse, and I was wearing black. Then another co-worker walked in and she was wearing beige, so I said, “Why didn’t you wear a blue blouse? Didn’t you know we were going to be an ink jet printer today?”