Okinawa no Hanami (Summer Edition)

Happy summer guys, hot, sweaty, sunny, sun glasses, sun cream, sun bath, beach, snorkeling, diving, or something else you have to do to raise your summer. But, not only us who are celebrating summer holiday, do you know that some flowers in Okinawa are also blossoming? let see, I succeed to capture some Okinawan flowers, hope you enjoy with those pictures!.

Pic. 1 Yellow flower, has 5 petals, and this flower is also common in Indonesia (tropical region)

Pic. 2 Reddish flower, I do not know what kind of flower it is, but it has big tree, big steam, and small leaves as you can see.

Pic. 3 Purple Bougenville, we can find this kind of flower easily in tropical region, and also has many variant in color (red, white, even yellow)

Pic. 4 Kind of grass, I do not know the name but I like this grass even though it is not flower. 

Pic. 5 A flower surrounding University of the Ryukyu 

Pic. 6 Such white flower with 6 petals, small in size, but still it is beautiful, living nearly grass. 

Pic. 7 This flower is also could be found in Indonesia or another tropical country, as I know, there is white color variant, but I have not found here yet. 

 Pic. 8 Yup, I captured this grass at night, it gave another sensation effect, and make me more loving this grass :)

Pic. 9 In Indonesia this flower is known as Bunga tapak dara. As science student, I have been learning the chemical structure containing in this flower extract, Vincristine and Vinblastine, these compounds have activity as anticancer, wew beauty useful :) (Inspiring me as a woman hahahhaha)

 Pic. 10 Bunga Sepatu (Indonesian) This flower has Latin name Hibiscus-rosa sinensis, hehhehe

and we can easily find this flower in another tropical country.

Pic. 11 Bud of Hibiscusrosa sinensis

Pic. 12 Unknown flower

Pic. 13 white and yellow combination flower, small size but beautiful. 

Pic. 14 Yellow flower, I found this flower near by traffic light at University of the Ryukyus. 

 Pic. 15 Pinky flower, It has high tree and less leaves.

Pic. 16 Yellow flower, growing like grass but beautiful.

Yellowish and reddish flower are dominating Okinawan flowers, the question, why do they yellowish or reddish? do they have correlation among color, location, temperature, texture or something else? Interested, so that's why I really love science :)