Trippy Travel Photo #20 is of a ‘golden chicken fern’–aka, Cibotium Barometz–and was shot in West Sumatra, Indonesia. There were two winners of the game this time, who followed these steps in order to guess successfully.
1. Look at the Photo/Study the Details
Golden Chicken Fern
2. Guess what/where!
- What is this thing?
- And is it simply what it is–or does it have some sort of purpose?
- Where was I traveling when I saw it?
To win, you must answer all 3 questions or come really close! (Feel free to get ideas from others’ comments.) And if you have no idea, it’s OK to make up silly answers. That’s fun, too!
3. Check back later!
- Post your guesses here in the Comments Section (tweets and FB comments don’t count–sorry)
- Keep checking and guessing as the guessing gets good…
- See who won…maybe it will be you!
*Note: Facebook friends who may have seen this photo (if I posted it at some point) are disqualified from playing. If you share the game with other friends, I’d greatly appreciate it!
The prize?
A mention of your name and a link to your site from within this post (which is good for Google/SEO, etc.)
The winners are…
Mark G, whose Flicker page can be found here and Rick W, owner of a great B &B in Bali–link here. Normally, there’s just one winner, but this time, we had two.
The answer: Golden Chicken Fern (Cibotium Barometz)–West Sumatra, Indonesia
Unusual, isn’t it? And really hard to figure out. I was actually happy when Mark guessed what it was since I was having trouble googling my own darn photo! Anyway, according to forestferns.co.uk, cibotium means ‘a small box often used to hold medical remedies’ and barometz means ‘lamb’ and refers to the woolly rhizome.
It’s an interesting plant because up above, it’s a fern and down below, it’s this mass of pseudo chicken hair.
Can’t get enough?
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