A Colorful Flowering Raimbow - The Hitachi Seaside Park

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    A Colorful Flowering Raimbow - The Hitachi Seaside Park







    It is a public park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan.





    Covering an area of 190 hectares, the park features blooming flowers around the year. The park has become known for its baby blue-eyes flowers, with the blooming of 4.5 million of the translucent-petaled blue flowers in the spring drawing tourists.

    (Baby blue eyes)



    Baby blue eyes' flowers ( "Nemophila Harmony")have five petals and are bell or cup-shaped, and purple, blue, or white in color, often spotted or marked. The stamens are included and there is only one ovary chamber.The leaves are simple, with an opposite or alternate arrangement. The petiole is generally bristly. The leaf blade is pinnately toothed or lobed.The fruit is 2-7 mm wide and generally enclosed by the calyx. The fruit itself is spherical to ovoid in shape. It is also hairy.The seeds are ovoid, smooth, wrinkled or pitted. At one end there is a colorless, conic appendage.


    (Daffodils)


    Together Baby blue Eyes the park features a million daffodils, 170 varieties of tulips, and many other flowers. The park includes cycling trails and a small amusement park with a Ferris wheel.








    Every year, in August, Hitachi Seaside Park hosts the Rock in Japan Festival, an annual three-day rock festival .




    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Seaside_Park
     
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