I went for a walk to get some pics.... Got distracted about 50m down the road by some nice cold beer... (they drink hot beer with ice here) sat down, A couple of locals sat down with me... about 10 beers later, one of the locals wanted to show me his mango farm.... along the walk through what was like rice fields, he was growing alot of these flowers called, in the native tongue, 'Sen'...(of course pronunciation is difficult,,, having 6 ways of saying the same word with different meanings)... not sure if they grow them to celebrate holidays or religious reasons, but there are alot of them in the area.. So beautiful!!! so swampy!!! I've never seen them before... The big pink flowers are pollinated and become the big pods.. Which have the big seeds in them... If you pry open an unopened flower,, you can see ants running around pollinating them. They also break open the developing pods and eat the seeds.. (Didnt try one though)Raw and cooked somehow... They grow and drop the flowers, become black and very hard, That's when you can pull the seeds out and plant them.... Stunning!!!!
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I went for a walk to get some pics.... Got distracted about 50m down the road by some nice cold beer... (they drink hot beer with ice here) sat down, A couple of locals sat down with me... about 10 beers later, one of the locals wanted to show me his mango farm.... along the walk through what was like rice fields, he was growing alot of these flowers called, in the native tongue, 'Sen'...(of course pronunciation is difficult,,, having 6 ways of saying the same word with different meanings)... not sure if they grow them to celebrate holidays or religious reasons, but there are alot of them in the area.. So beautiful!!! so swampy!!! I've never seen them before... The big pink flowers are pollinated and become the big pods.. Which have the big seeds in them... If you pry open an unopened flower,, you can see ants running around pollinating them. They also break open the developing pods and eat the seeds.. (Didnt try one though)Raw and cooked somehow... They grow and drop the flowers, become black and very hard, That's when you can pull the seeds out and plant them.... Stunning!!!!
A Sen field;
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A flower opening.... beautiful yellow stamens... If you look close.. you can see the pod forming
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A maturing pod.. where you can see where he tore open the pod and munched on one of the seeds......
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A pod that is close to being picked... You can wiggle the seeds like a loose tooth....
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A medium sized unopened flower....
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Has anyone seen these? I would love to know the genus name....
anyways, I'm gonna grow them
I'll post some more pics of germination (which is supposed to be very easy) and growth...
Hope you peeps like the pics.......
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