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November 21, 2010

The Red Powderpuff

Last year, when I was working in in San Diego and traveling through Mexico, I spent a good deal of time interrogating strangers about the flowers I encountered. I was never able to accurately identify the red flowers I saw on the bushes at the San Diego airport.

Yesterday, I noticed that one of the flowers we saw at the Denver Botanic Gardens was referred to as the Red Powderpuff "Calliandra haematocephala". Family: Fabaceae, Sub-family: Mimosoideae. This was a flower that bothered me a great deal, as I'd initially mistaken it for the flower of a Bottlebrush tree. I'm reasonably certain this is the same flower I shot last year in San Diego.

Posted by Rob Kiser on November 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM

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