PINK FLOWER CLIMBER

The recent drought was just the right trigger to bring on the onslaught of flowering in lots of species, including this unknown leguminous climber.

the pendulous pink flowers

WEED

I recently realized I had a lot of photos in my camera's hard disk because on the few occasions when I forgot to put in the memory card, the camera continued to take the photos and I totally forgot about them until recently, that is. Only when the camera indicated that the memory was full that I knew of all these "hidden" photos.

So here I am posting these photos, starting with this one on an interesting legume weed I saw almost a year ago.

And the island in the last photo no longer looked like that a year later. The turf is completely covered up with shrubs now. Too bad I don't have the photos to compare the difference.

SCHIZOLOBIUM PARAHYBA

These Tower Trees from the Family Fabaceae / Leguminosae were flowering recently and there were quite a number of seed pods hanging from the the numerous branches high up the tree. How interesting! 

UNKNOWN LEGUME

Er, I love this leguminous weed although I have no idea on its identity. So I am just admiring its beauty before it is removed.

MIMOSA PUDICA

I have never posted about this very common garden weed Mimosa pudica (common name: Sensitive Plant, Tickle Me Plant; Family: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)) because it is not regarded as an ornamental plant and more often than not, their presence in the urban landscape is frowned upon.

But I am an admirer of this amazing plant that responds to tactile touches on its leaves. How many plants can actually do that? Hardly any, I say. All I can say is it is not a plant with a large appreciative audience, but I am glad to be one. To me, even the compound leaves look beautiful.

A link on this wonderful plant is shown below:

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

NB on 28 Feb 11: This is Mimosa diplotricha, not M. pudica.

MALAYSIAN TRIP (2-4 NOV 09)

These photos were taken during the trip to Malaysia.

The red flame and the interesting tree photos were taken on 2 Nov 09 whilst the last photo of the unknown legume plant was taken on 3 Nov 09.