Can you name these two flowers? Link to pictures below?

Question

Both of these plants grow in Hawaii.

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn22/slack44/flower13.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn22/slack44/Flower9.jpg

Answer 1

The top one is the "Orchid Tree" or Bauhinia (Bean Family: Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae).  It's one of my favourites!

Answer 2

1) About the image in the first link you have provided

It is = Bauhinia variegata of =

Family: Fabaceae=    Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae



Genus : Bauhinia  and the species : B. variegata

Kindly click on the link below for flower and leaf images =

http://ts-den.aluka.org/fsi/img/size2/al...

The color difference between flower in your photo and this one is due to the age of the flower.

http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/VFH/imag...

All Bauhinia have this type of leaf with a cleft in the middle .

2 ) The second image is that of =Metrosideros polymorpha=

It is a Small to midium size tree of Myrtaceae family == links =

http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/image...

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

There is another closely related tree =

Metrosideros kermadecensis of the same genus =

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mkerm...

From = A Botanist