414 foot mega-yacht owned by Billionaire Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft. moored @ Malaga Spain. Possibly named after the "Tentacles" of his company!

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In the botanic gardens Lisbon. also known as Brugmansia or Angel's trumpets

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In a garden @ Madeira. a spectacular tree that we had a lot of in Africa when I was there. Also known as the African Tulip Tree

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We found some sun but still cooler than expected. This is the sun rising @ Cadiz over the new bridge that is now open. taken through a ships window on morning of November 21st 2015.

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Light marking are more gold brown than the cream ones on UK species that is sub-species "tircis". Taken in Lisbon botanical gardens November 20th 2015

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