Happypaphy7
Paphlover
Funchal is the main city of the Portuguese Island, Madeira where I just vacationed.
In the "old" part of the city, there is this building with many different shops, fish, meat, and flowers!
In the photo below, from the left, insigne (this was very common on the island, almost everyone had pot full of them in bloom!), Lathamianum (spicerianum x villosum), Nitens ?? (insigne x villosum).
What I suspect as Nitens had huge glossy flowers. Also sold at the air port.
These are 50 cents (EURO) per stem.
This is the same lady from the market, but she would take some flowers out on the street closer to where there are more tourists.
Boxes full of insigne.
Insigne bouquet
Nitens?
My phone camera lens had some dirt and many pictures came out cloudy.
Did not realize that until later. lol
Also, one store at this market was selling many many bulldog hybrids, and they were all very very large. Majority was spotted ones with rather early "antique" looking flowers, and then some copper tone, then a few of red and white and green. only two green, so they like spotted ones over there I guess.
Price ranged from 15 Euro for a pot with a single bloom plant to 40.
Then, there were a bunch of Maudiae x charlesworthii type with nearly perfect dorsal for only 20.
All NOID.
I was very tempted to smuggle those vini hybrids, but did not. Dang it!!! hehe
In the "old" part of the city, there is this building with many different shops, fish, meat, and flowers!
In the photo below, from the left, insigne (this was very common on the island, almost everyone had pot full of them in bloom!), Lathamianum (spicerianum x villosum), Nitens ?? (insigne x villosum).
What I suspect as Nitens had huge glossy flowers. Also sold at the air port.
These are 50 cents (EURO) per stem.
This is the same lady from the market, but she would take some flowers out on the street closer to where there are more tourists.
Boxes full of insigne.
Insigne bouquet
Nitens?
My phone camera lens had some dirt and many pictures came out cloudy.
Did not realize that until later. lol
Also, one store at this market was selling many many bulldog hybrids, and they were all very very large. Majority was spotted ones with rather early "antique" looking flowers, and then some copper tone, then a few of red and white and green. only two green, so they like spotted ones over there I guess.
Price ranged from 15 Euro for a pot with a single bloom plant to 40.
Then, there were a bunch of Maudiae x charlesworthii type with nearly perfect dorsal for only 20.
All NOID.
I was very tempted to smuggle those vini hybrids, but did not. Dang it!!! hehe
