Foster Botanical Garden
Woman in the Middle | September 18, 2016One of the places we asked to be taken while in Honolulu was a botanical garden and so the uncles took us to Foster Botanical Garden. This 13.5 acre garden, right in Honolulu, is the oldest botanical garden in Honolulu and is actually on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of the trees on the site were planted back in the 1850s!
As you can imagine, the garden was full of lush tropical foliage, beautiful flowers, and amazing trees. There were lots of lizards, too, or mo’o, as they are called in Hawaiian. Here are some of the beautiful, amazing, and reptilian things we saw at Foster Botanical Garden.
Certainly the most interesting tree we saw was called the cannonball tree. It had beautiful flowers and big round brown fruit, the size and shape of cannonballs, growing from its trunk!
There were plenty of signs warned us to stay a healthy distance from the tree so we didn’t get beaned by a “cannonball.” The girls, Uncle Maka, and I took the signs to heart. But these two other men, who happen to be related, had to get an up close and personal view of the tree. Genetics are an interesting thing….
Here is another photo of the trunk of the tree.
Hubby took this close-up of one of the beautiful flower on the cannonball tree.
A cute little mo’o!
And another one….
I wish this photo did better justice to this huge tree. It was overcast on and off that day, due to the hurricane passing by.
This is a papaya tree. I had never seen one before. I was surprised to see the fruit grew from the trunk, not the branches.
And now, here are some photos of pretty flowers and foliage, to end our visit to Foster Botanical Garden.
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