KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL - POND

This is the last of the 3 posts on the landscaping at the new hospital. Amongst the plants shown were the Codiaeum variegatum (common name: Croton), yellow-flower Canna glauca, Cyperus haspan var. viviparus, Acrostichum aureum (common name: Mangrove Fern).

Some links on the plants are provided below:

1. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=cagl13
2. http://www.watergardenparadise.com.au/aquaticcannas.php
3. http://www.watergardenparadise.com.au/aquaticcannas.php

There were also schools of the more common Tiger Barb and the Albino Tiger Barb in the shallow pond water. How serene it all looked.

CODIAEUM VARIEGATUM

This is another shrub from the Euphorbiaceae Family. Most people would refer to this plant by its common name Garden Croton or Variegated Croton.

Seriously, I don't even know if there is a non-variegated Croton. All those Crotons I have ever come across are variegated, albeit the leaves range from broad or narrow. Most of them are generally very colourful with colours from red, brown, orange to yellow.

These are really old plants that were often planted in cemeteries and sometimes they still have this stigma associated with it.

Other than pests such as mealy bugs and scales which are notoriously nasty, these plants are generally easy to look after.

CODIAEUM VARIEGATUM

The Croton has one of the more interesting specific epithet 'variegatum'.

Is there no normal green colour Croton and are all just different variegated forms, I wonder?

Anyway, this one was flowering but that was not the only interesting thing. A beetle was nestled amongst the flowrers.