I tend to like knowing the names of the flowers and plants that surround me wherever I go. Here in the Philippines, this tenet is proving somewhat difficult for two reasons. First, I am surrounded by many dozens of new things on a near-daily basis. Second, trees, flowers, and fruits may have a variety of names, given the cocktail of languages and dialects used within this country of many islands.
For this reason, I sometimes give a flower a name
of my own choosing and move on. That is the case with the flower I am featuring a photograph (along with the lovely Mrs. Desiree Hegman) today. I call this a
“fireworks flower” because it looks like a pyrotechnic display frozen in time.
I fully understand there are smartphone apps that can assist (more like lead
me) in finding names, but I am happy for now, as I stumble on in my tropically overheated
ignorance.
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—Mitchell Hegman
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