Hi guys, this is my first post and hoping you can help! I was visiting a friend on the big island in Hawaii and need help identifying a plant I saw at his friends-friends organic farm. The plant intrigues me as it looks like a type of hard coral commonly known as "birds nest" that I used to grow in my home saltwater reef aquarium. The plant itself was about 12" tall with round green leafs and groupings of orange branch-like structures/flowers that branched like coral. It also had a few "blue" berries growing on the orange coral-like branches/flowers. I do not have a way of contacting the owner but did take a picture of it hoping to ID it when I got back home. Although it has been fun TRYING to find a similar plant, I'm getting no where and need some clues or help getting on the right path. After searching google images for things such as "orange exotic plants", "Coral plant", or "Birds nest plant" I'm not finding anything exactly like it. If I at least knew the proper name for the type of branching/flower structure, perhaps I could narrow my search. I have no idea how common or rare the plant is, but really hoping it is something I could find and grown indoors here in Iowa. Attached are some pictures, any help appreciated. I have no idea if there are normally petals on the orange parts, or if this is what it normally looks like. Thanks! Lee
After I wrote this post, I decided that maybe there were 'flowers' on the orange branches and I overlooked some of the photos of 'similar' plants. I think I may have ID'd this as: "Medinilla scortechinii", Medinilla myriantha Commonly known as "orange medinilla"
