It is cultivated as an ornamental plant, but it blooms wild in the jungles of Martinique: the porcelain flower. The 30 x 80 kilometre Caribbean island, which, like its big sister Guadeloupe, is administratively part of France as a pays d'outre-mer, is a tropical and exotic natural jewel, especially in the primeval forests of the Montagne Pelée. Île aux fleurs is the name of France's Caribbean island in the Lesser Antilles - and its flora would make any flower boutique envious: pink porcelain roses, bright red flower cane, orange-yellow lobster claws and parrot's beak, hibiscus and bougainvillea. What a riot of colours. And what a fascinating flower that grows in the primeval forests of the Caribbean island!
Hello and welcome! Here are the best photos I've ever taken: Hilke - a true Hamburg girl with a lot of France in her heart. I trained as an editor and, after two decades with various publishing houses, I've been working as a freelance journalist for print, .. Read more…