African Tulip Tree Wood Print

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The African Tulip Tree is also sometimes called Fire Tree, Flame of the Forest and Fountain Tree. African Tulip Trees are famous throughout the tropical world. They are native to West Kenya and Uganda. The major attraction are the large softball-sized bell-shaped orange-red flowers with a yellow border on the petals...huge and spectacular. It is listed as one of Hawaii's most invasive horticultural plants.

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...