Bali - Flowers

Bali is 11 degrees below the Equator so you would expect flowers to grow well in this tropical island. Florence and I didn't know that the banana plant could have such a beautiful flower.

Here is the view out of out cottage in Ubud at the Kamdalu resort.

We went to the Bali Botanical gardens and they had a large orchid garden but since we came at the end of the rainy season and before the heavy tourist season there weren't many orchids in bloom(and not many other tourists). But there were some good ones.

Even outside of the Botanical Garden there were flowers everywhere. I think this is called a trumpeter flower.

Florence says this is called a shrimp flower.

And this is the passion flower. Called the passion flower because the parts of the flower are used to tell the story of the "Passion of Christ".