Flowers on Campus and in the Field

In this posting, we want to share with you some beautiful impressions of Taiwan's flora we have daily when cycling across our campus or doing field work:

As we have no clue whatsoever how these flowers or plants are called, we made up our own names for some of the more peculiar ones. The generous attribution of new names to unknown plants is definitely an inheritance from Micha's father...

We named this kind of lily (?) "Ophiura-Lily" as it reminds us of brittlestars, a relative of starfish.
Here you can see Kamil admiring the size of a cucumber, and next to it the "Deadly-Blue-Solanaceous", a sand plant and some very red "bee-hive flowers"...


Ha, this one we know, it's a passion fruit plant! (We dedicate this photo to Dorli, Micha's mum, who tried as tediously as unavailingly to grow a potted passion fruit plant in their apartment.)

And here are some impressions of the campus: yellow trees seaming the road we live in, "tiger lily", again "Ophiura-Lilies", and a "orange trumpet flower".