Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Waimea Valley on Oahu is home to a lovely waterfall, and a number of unusual plants and flowers. The walk is easy, and worth doing.



I loved this sleeve of a vine.



When I looked at the vine up close, I found these flowers hanging--I can't think of any other word to use but the not so PC "exotic."












Okay. So the coconut is not a flower. But it can be picked and drunk fresh--incredible nectar.