http://www.calypsoislandtours.com/blog/index.php/barbados/plant-of-the-week-the-lollypop-plant/ Adventures, misadventures and reflections of traveling in the tropics Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.calypsoislandtours.com/blog/index.php/barbados/plant-of-the-week-the-lollypop-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-1534 Calypso Island Chronicles » Blog Archive » Plant of the Week - Flame Vine Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:41:23 +0000 http://www.calypsoislandtours.com/blog/?p=165#comment-1534 [...] I came across this vine again while touring Costa Rica in February 2005; walking thru the lovely gardens of the Bougainvillea Hotel located just outside of San Jose, I encountered “the mystery vine” climbing the fence in the back of the gardens growing side by side with the Lollypop plant. Running into the hotel with a couple of the blossoms in hand, I asked the young lady in the gift shop and some of the people who worked at the front desk if they knew the name of this vine. At last, I think it was the young lady in the gift shop who told me, that in Costa Rica, they called this vine Pirotecnia which in English means Fireworks but she didn’t have a clue what the botanical name was. Armed with the local name of this vine, I was one step closer to making a proper identification, but my hunt for the botanical name on the Internet eluded me. [...] […] I came across this vine again while touring Costa Rica in February 2005; walking thru the lovely gardens of the Bougainvillea Hotel located just outside of San Jose, I encountered “the mystery vine” climbing the fence in the back of the gardens growing side by side with the Lollypop plant. Running into the hotel with a couple of the blossoms in hand, I asked the young lady in the gift shop and some of the people who worked at the front desk if they knew the name of this vine. At last, I think it was the young lady in the gift shop who told me, that in Costa Rica, they called this vine Pirotecnia which in English means Fireworks but she didn’t have a clue what the botanical name was. Armed with the local name of this vine, I was one step closer to making a proper identification, but my hunt for the botanical name on the Internet eluded me. […]

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