Plants and flowers

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There aren't many new photos here, as so many were photographed last year.

Below: coming two weeks earlier, we see what the grapevine looks like in flower:

Just for reference, this is the same one in fruit last year:

Here are red and green peppers, on the plants, as opposed to on a tray at Tesco:

Difficult to tell here, but this cactus was about 10 feet high.  It in an agaves americana known in Greek as an athanatos.  This one might be about 7 or 8 years old. Don't be within range when it bursts a seed pod, as they are poisonous.  Like other desert seeds, they lie dormant for years waiting for rain and optimum conditions before sprouting.

I though the fruits below were limes, but it turned out they were unripe oranges.  I became an expert after one of our road train rides through the groves...

 

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