Showing posts with label Brownea grandiceps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brownea grandiceps. Show all posts

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Brownea grandiceps and Brownea capitella

In the Singapore Botanic Gardens I saw the Brownea grandiceps or Rose of Venezuela - as beautiful as the women in a country famed for Miss Universe finalists.Next to this tree was a relative:
The flowers are smaller and the petals are lighter in colour.

What Slurp! said in his comment on this post about the young leaves looking like handkerchiefs. Well, here they are:

A perfectly shaped flower, probably that of the Brownea macrophylla that I came across some years ago at the Marina City Park. I heard that the park is now closed for re-development. It was one of my favourite parks to go to because 1)It was spacious 2)Not many people went there even on weekends 3) There were various types of trees, birds and insects.

Once I saw a group of photographers armed with cameras, tripods and huge zoom lenses trained on a few isolated ducks on the water some distance away. I was impressed and thought that these birds must really be hard to photograph. Then I turned a corner and unknown to these photographers was a family of ducks frolicking in the water that looked like what the photographers were eyeing (video later). Perhaps those were not the ducks they were aiming to photograph. It did not matter because I had fun photographing those I saw and they were only metres away. Now that's luck for me.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Flowers to brighten up the blog

Carphalea kirondron
(Flaming Beauty)
This being the first day of the Chinese New Year, I thought I should add some vibrant colours to this blog. I came across this flower in the Singapore Botanical Gardens and was attracted to it because I find it rather unique. Amidst the individual clusters of red flowers are one or two white ones.
Brownea Rosa-de-monte
(Rose of Venezuela
)
This flower looks like an embroidered ball that was tossed over a balcony by a pretty young lady looking for a husband in olden day China. The lucky guy who caught it would become her husband. What a neat match-making technique.
Photographed this flower at Marina City Park.
Ixora Odorata
Took this shot at Labrador Park. This flower bears resemblance to the Ixora. Interesting combination of colours. Found a picture of it in the publication "1001 Garden Plants in Singapore".